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To identify the control or the indicator which stops operation intermittently and keeps the equipment in operating mode. Play/pause toggle U+23EF ⏯ — To identify the control or the indicator which toggles between the present state of playing or pause, to the other. Reverse U+23F4 ⏴ — Stop U+23F9 ⏹ #5110B Stop
A DVD player is a machine that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some DVD players will also play audio CDs. DVD players are connected to a television to watch the DVD content, which could be a movie, a recorded TV show, or other content.
Generally, one cycle constitutes one block of data. If there is a faulty block of data, the player may do one of the following: Repeat the previous block of audio; Skip the faulty block; Try and retry to read it, causing a stopping and starting of the music; A player may utilise one or more of these techniques, depending on how faulty the data is.
Older players (1992–1997) had at most half the battery life when the skip protection system was in use. Players from 1997 onward have more power-efficient skip protection. Portable players, more so portable CD players but also some portable DVD players, that invariably include an ASP feature (Anti-Skip-protection), struggle with CD-R/RW, DVD ...
Region-free players are DVD players shipped without the ability to enforce regional lockout (usually by means of a chip that ignores any region coding), or without this flag set. However, if the player is not region-free, it can often be unlocked with an unlock code entered via the remote control .
DVD Player is an app developed by Microsoft for playing DVD-Video on Microsoft Windows. Originally introduced in Windows 98 , DVD Player was included in Windows Me and Windows 2000 but was removed starting with Windows XP , where DVD playback capabilities were integrated into Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center .
Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together.
On a DVD, each track is called a title, because it is intended to hold a single movie title, or episode of a TV series. Extra content and bonus features on a DVD are also on separate tracks or titles. The sub-track index is called a chapter, like a chapter in a book.