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Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Just about to setup a "Media Centre" type machine (well, recycle an > oldish but quiet and powerful-enough machine) and I was having a > think... if watching a DVD on the machine directly (rather than > ripping and watching the rip), the DVD drive will be in use during the > movie. Is there a way to slow down the maximum speed a drive can work > at? I don't particularly want it blaring away at 8x unnecessarily so. > > Cheers. > Grant. :) > > IIRC the DVD drive will run as fast as is necessary to dump the data from it so slowing it down would cause problems. If noise from the DVD is a problem could you put the DVD in another machine (in another room) and access it via a fast network connection? And then rip the data as you watch just in case you fall asleep and feel you may want to re-watch it! Haven't seen a film worth watching let alone re-watching for a while now... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html