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Play the Video
After you download the episode, you can play the episode by tapping the Play button. The episode begins to play. Tap the screen to open the controls shown in Figure 7.
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Figure 7 The Play icon appears in the center of the screen after you pause video playback.
Tap the pause icon in the center of the screen to pause playback; you can tap the Play button again to start playing the video. At the top of the screen, you'll see the transparent menu bar that has the name of the video you're watching on the left side of the bar and the Menu icon at the right side of the bar. Tap the Menu icon to change Play Movies & TV app settings, get online help for the app, or contact Samsung about the app.
At the bottom of the screen, you'll see the slider bar. At the right side of the slider bar, you'll see the total running time of the video above the bar. On the left side of the slider bar, above the bar you'll see the time that indicates where you are in the video run time. For example, if the left side of the slider bar indicates the time is 04:00, you're currently at the fourth minute of run time.
You can tap, hold, and slide the red button on the slider bar to the left and right to move the playback position in the video to a desired point. When you release your finger, the run time appears above the left side of the slider bar, and the video begins playing from that point. You can also move the slider button back and forth while the video is paused, and when you release your finger from the slider bar button, the screen frame that corresponds to that playback point in the video appears on the screen. Tap the Play button in the center of the screen to start playing the video from that point.
To the left of the slider bar, you'll see the CC button that you can tap to view text captions at the bottom of the screen. In the Captions window that appears, tap the language in which you want to view the captions. You can turn off captions by tapping the CC icon again and then tapping Turn Off Captions in the Captions window.
When you're finished playing the video, tap the Back button in the menu bar to return to the season page shown in Figure 8. This page includes the episodes you've downloaded in the current season and also view other episodes in that season you can purchase and view.
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Figure 8 The My Episodes section at the top of the screen displays all television episodes you have downloaded from the Google Play Store.
You can play an episode the My Episodes section by tapping on the tile that contains the episode you want to play. If you want to view information about other episodes during that season of the show, swipe upward on the screen to view all the tiles containing other episodes. Tap on the tile that contains the episode, and the related description page opens in the Google Play Store screen.
Tap the back button to return to the TV Shows page. You'll see a large image of the television show you downloaded in the My Shows section.
View and Change Settings
You can view and change your account and app settings by tapping the Menu icon at the right side of the menu bar and then tapping Accounts or Settings in the drop-down menu.
When you tap Accounts in the menu, the Choose an Account window appears and shows you the account that you use to log in to the Google Play Store. If there is more than one account in a list and you want to use a different account than the one you're currently using, tap the button to the right of the account name and then tap OK. If you want to add an account, tap the button to the right of Add Account in the list and then tap OK. The Make It Google screen opens so you can add an existing account or create a new one.
When you tap Settings in the menu, the Settings screen opens and displays your Device ID and the App Version information on the screen, but you can't change this information. You can tap Caption Font Size in the menu to open the Caption Font Size window and set the font size for on-screen captions. The default size is Medium, but you can also select Small, Large, or Huge.
Be sure to test the captions on a video to see how big the caption is in case you need to reset the caption font size. You can also access the Settings screen when you're playing a video by tapping on the screen, tapping the Menu icon at the right side of the menu bar, and then tapping Settings.
Now that you've had the red carpet tour of the Play Movies & TV app, enjoy finding movies and television shows and watching them on your Galaxy Tab 2.