If you’ve become accustomed to Media Center’s 30 second-skip and instant replay features for TV, you can add that feature to DVD playback, too. By default, the skip buttons jump between chapters when you watch a DVD. But you can change that by configuring the behavior of your remote buttons. This works with any Media Center remote since it changes how Media Center responds to the remote commands, rather than changing the signals the buttons send.
Instructions
Select Settings under Tasks
Select DVD
Select Remote Control Options
Set your preferred button behaviors
- Under When I press Skip and Replay, select Skip forward and backward.
- Under When I press Channel Up and Channel Down, select Skip chapters.
- Finally, select Save.
If you change your remote options as above, your skip forward and back buttons will now function for DVD playback as they do for TV viewing—as 30 second skip and instant replay. To jump between chapters, use your Channel Up and Down buttons now. If only we could get Total Media Theater on board….