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Play a DVD or DVD movie file in DVD Player on Mac
You can use the DVD Player app to play DVDs or DVD movie files stored on your computer.
Note: You can’t copy and play video folders from DVD discs with copy protection. DVD Player also doesn’t play other media, such as Blu-ray discs, or recognize video content burned onto certain types of DVD-RW discs.
Play a DVD
Insert a disc, and the DVD Player app
starts playing the disc.
If the disc doesn’t play automatically, press the Space bar after the disc is recognized.
Play a DVD movie file stored on your Mac
In the DVD Player app
on your Mac, Choose File > Open DVD Media.
Navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder that contains the movie file you want to play, then click Open.
When you play a movie, the DVD Player controller appears in all window sizes except full-screen view.
Use these controls when you’re playing a movie:
![The DVD Player controller, with the volume slider in the top-left area and the scrubber at the bottom. Drag the scrubber to go to a different place.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C6C4D47680CE27C2A86DD2E/5C6C4D4F680CE27C2A86DD36/en_US/f298bb70a1cf164afd111e1c92a5ac39.png)
Use these controls to access disc menus:
![The menu button is in the top-left corner of the DVD Player controller. Click the Menu button to access the disc menus.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C6C4D47680CE27C2A86DD2E/5C6C4D4F680CE27C2A86DD36/en_US/de5b3a1ca2ad2b31b49b6aa0f2e56d67.png)