Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac User Guide A Detailed Introduction to Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac on How to Use Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac to Play Blu-ray, DVD, HD Video, Audio and ISO Files on Mac and How to Get App for Free through Sharing Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac. 1
Content 1. Introduce Leawo Free Blu-ray player for mac... 4 1.1 About the main interface... 4 1.2 Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac Program Menu... 7 1.2.1 Leawo Blu-ray Player... 7 1.2.2 File... 8 1.2.3 Playback... 8 1.2.4 Window... 9 1.2.5 Help... 9 2. Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac Preferences Settings... 10 2.1 Playback settings... 10 2.2 Video output settings... 11 2.3 Audio output settings... 12 2.4 DVD Blu-ray settings... 13 2.5 Subtitles settings... 14 2.6 International settings... 15 2.7 Snapshot settings... 16 2
2.8 Skin settings... 17 2.9 Power Manager settings... 18 2.10 General settings... 19 3. How to Play Blu-ray/DVD/Video/Audio/ISO Files with Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac... 19 3.1 Step 1: Load source media files... 20 3.2 Step 2: Set subtitles (optional)... 21 3.3 Step 3: Video Settings (optional)... 22 3.4 Step 4: Audio Settings (optional)... 23 4. Share to Win Activity... 24 4.1 Step 1: Click the Share button... 25 4.2 Step 2: Click to share... 26 4.3 Step 3: Login Facebook and share... 27 4.4 Step 4: Select preferred prize... 28 4.5 Step 5: Register personal email address... 29 3
1. Introduce Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac comes with easy to use interface. You only need to open this Mac Blu-ray Player, then load source media files for playback. 1.1 About the main interface After launching Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac, on the main interface, click the big green Open File button to browse and load video, audio and ISO image file from your local drive for playing. Once you insert a blank disc 4
into the disc recorder drive, you could see a disc loading icon like this to load disc directly from disc drive. At the bottom of the main interface, you could see multiple playback control buttons to help you control media playback: limiter to adjust audio volume. : Click the Mute button to mute playback, or slide the adjuster : At the bottom of this Mac Blu-ray Player software, from the left to the right, these buttons respectively represent: Stop, Previous, Rewind, Play/Pause (switchable), Fast Forward, Next, and Shuffle/Loop/Order (switchable) playback. button: Click to share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player on Facebook. button: Click to open/hide the playlist panel. button: Click to start/quit full-screen playback. button: Click to contact Leawo Software and send feedback. button: Click to enter the program settings panel. 5
Meanwhile, on the home interface, you could see date and time. What s more, you could right click the main interface for more options. You will then see a right-click menu as below: On the right-click menu, more options are available: Open: Open File (shortcut: Command+O, to open one single file) and Open Folder (shortcut: Command+P, to open a folder). Play Disc/Eject Disc: Choose to play/eject which disc you ve inserted into the disc drive if you get multiple disc drives. Playback: multiple operations to control playback, like Play/Pause (Space), Stop (Command+S), Next (Option+Down) and Previous (Option+Up). Menu: Click to invoke the disc menu interface to let you choose which to play back. Videos/Audios/Subtitles: These options enable you to adjust video settings, audio settings and subtitle settings during playback. 6
Also, the right-click menu includes some playback operations: Fullscreen playback (Command+F), Always On Top (Command+T), Playlist (F3), Snapshot (Shift+S), Preferences, Record and Convert (which requires you to make use of Leawo Prof. Media for Mac). 1.2 Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac Program Menu On the top-left corner of your computer, you could see the program menu of Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac. There are 5 tabs: Leawo Blu-ray Player, File, Playback, Window and Help. 1.2.1 Leawo Blu-ray Player Under the Leawo Blu-ray Player tab, you could view the program information by clicking the About Leawo Blu-ray Player, set program Preferences (detailed 7
information will be introduced below), ;set Services, Hid Leawo Blu-ray Player, Hide Others, Show All, and Quit Leawo Blu-ray Player. 1.2.2 File Under the File tab, you could choose to Open File, Open Folder, Play Disc, Eject Disc, Add Files to Playlist or Empty Playlist, and take Snapshot during playing media. 1.2.3 Playback Under the Playback tab, you could choose to Play or Stop playing, play previous 8
movie or Next movie on the playlist, Fast Forward or Rewind playback, Mute media, turn Volume Up or Down, and do Playback Settings (upon video, audio and subtitle). 1.2.4 Window Under the Window tab, you could determine the program playback mode, including: Fullscreen playback, make Leawo Blu-ray Player Always on Top of other apps, call out the Playlist, and take Snapshot. 1.2.5 Help The Help tab provides you solutions to get help from Leawo Software. You could visit the online User Guide of Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac, send Feedback and Bug Report to Leawo, Check for Update, and Record sound and Convert media (these 2 requires other apps from Leawo). 9
2. Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac Preferences Settings By clicking the button on the main interface, or clicking Leawo Blu-ray Player > Preferences on the top-left corner of the menu bar, you could enter the program preferences settings panel. The preferences settings cover: Playback, Video output, Audio output, DVD Blu-ray, Subtitles, International, Snapshot, Skin, Power Manager, and General. 2.1 Playback settings The Playback settings tab allows you to set: Render method, Adjust display 10
refresh rate to match video, Pause during refresh rate change, Sync playback to display, Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars, Display 4:3 video in different aspect ratios, Activate Teletext, Scale Teletext to 4:3 or not, etc. 2.2 Video output settings Video output settings panel allows you to set the Display Mode from Windowed or Fullscreen. 11
2.3 Audio output settings You could set Audio output, Speaker Configuration, Boost volume level on downmix, Output stereo to all speakers, Audio output device, Play GUI sounds, etc. under the Audio output settings panel. 12
2.4 DVD Blu-ray settings The DVD Blu-ray settings panel allows you to determine whether or not to Play DVD/Blu-ray automatically, set Forced BD player region, and skip introduction before DVD/Blu-ray menu or not. 13
2.5 Subtitles settings You could open the Subtitles settings panel to do subtitle related settings, including: Font, Size, Style, Color, Character set, Override ASS/SSA subtitles fonts, Subtitle folder and Subtitle location, etc. 14
2.6 International settings The International settings refer to the program interface Language, Region, Character set, Preferred audio language, and Preferred subtitle language. 15
2.7 Snapshot settings The Snapshot setting panel enables you to set the Snapshot format and Save Path for snapshots you captured within Leawo Free Blu-ray Player. 16
2.8 Skin settings The Skin settings panel allows you to set the program skin. You could select from provided Skin themes, or click to Enable custom background and then upload your own image from local drive. 17
2.9 Power Manager settings Open the Power Manage tab to view Power status and click to Enable battery protect. You will be more aware of the laptop s battery status if you enable battery protect. 18
2.10 General settings The General settings panel lets you learn more about Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac. You could view the program version, get help, visit the online user guide, report bug, check for update, and translate the program into other languages. 3. How to Play Bluray/DVD/Video/Audio/ISO Files with Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac As the best free Mac Blu-ray player software, Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac 19
offers you totally free yet still extremely easy to use interface to play various media files on Mac. It could not only play Blu-ray on Mac, but also DVD, HD video (up to 4K), audio, and ISO image file on Mac. The below Blu-ray Player for Mac user guide would show you how to use Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac to play movies on Mac in detail. 3.1 Step 1: Load source media files On the main interface of Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac, you could see up to 3 optional boxes (if you have both DVD drive and BD drive). There are different cases according to your source media files: 20
1. If you want to play video, audio and ISO image file, there are 3 ways: a. click the big green Open File button ; b. right click on the main interface and then select Open option; c. make use of the shortcut key(add one single file: Command+O; add one file folder: Command+P). 2. If you want to play Blu-ray/DVD disc, insert your disc into the disc drive and then the disc name would appear on the main interface. Click the box with the disc name you ve inserted. After loading source media files, you could click the button to open the playlist panel and see all loaded media files. On the playlist panel, you could click the to add, remove or clear movies on playlist. 3.2 Step 2: Set subtitles (optional) Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac allows you to select subtitle from source media files, or even add external subtitles to watch movies in familiar language. Right click on the interface and then select Subtitles... option, or move mouse to the upperleft corner of the interface and then click the subtitle icon to call out Subtitles-Settings panel. 21
You could click to Enable subtitles, set Subtitle offset, choose Subtitles from source media files if available, and Browse for subtitles from local drive (this is not available for BD/DVD playback). 3.3 Step 3: Video Settings (optional) Right click on the main interface during playing, or click the video setting icon on the upper-left corner of the main interface to enter the Video-Settings panel. 22
On the Video-Settings panel, you could determine multiple settings upon video playback, including: Deinterlace video, Deinterlace method, Video scaling method, Crop black bars, Video mode, Brightness, Contrast, etc. 3.4 Step 4: Audio Settings (optional) On the upper-left corner, click the audio icon, or right click on the playback interface and then choose Audios option to enter the Audio-Settings panel. 23
You could adjust audio Volume, Volume amplification, Audio offset, Audio stream, Audio output, Audio output device and Set as default for all videos. Note: If you re playing Blu-ray/DVD content with disc menu, you could then click the menu icon on the upper-left corner to directly reach the disc menu interface for determine which content to play back. 4. Share to Win Activity Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac comes with an activity named Share to Win, in which people could share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac on Facebook and then win one of 4 apps for free. These 4 apps include: Tunes Cleaner, itransfer, ios Data 24
Recovery, and Music Recorder. The below Blu-ray Player for Mac user guide part would show you how to take part in the Share to Win activity. 4.1 Step 1: Click the Share button After you launch Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac, click the share button at the bottom right corner of the interface. The program would lead you to the Share to Win activity page. 25
4.2 Step 2: Click to share On the Share to Win page, you could see a Facebook Share to Win button. Click to share the program on Facebook. 26
4.3 Step 3: Login Facebook and share You may then be asked to log in Facebook if you haven t. Then, you could share this program on your Facebook. 27
4.4 Step 4: Select preferred prize After you ve shared Leawo Free Blu-ray Player for Mac on Facebook, you will be guided to the above page, where you need to select preferred app. Then, like Leawo Free Blu-ray Player on Facebook. 28
4.5 Step 5: Register personal email address Then, you need to register personal email address in order to get license code and download link of the app you ve selected in previous step from Leawo Software. After registering, click the Get button. Note: 1. The license code and download link would be sent to registered email address only if the Share to Win post has been kept on your Facebook for 24 hours. 2. The backstage would automatically detect your computer system and offer you download link of Leawo Blu-ray Player according to your system. The given app would also be in accordance with your current computer system. 29