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Re: [LUG] Slowing down CD/DVD drives?

 

tom wrote:
> It should be played at 1x - unless you've got a dirty/scratched badly
> encoded DVD then it may 'race' as it tries to read,reread etc. Unless 
> the app your're watching it with is doing it differently..
> Tom te tom teom
>   
It should be, doesn't mean it will though.  On Windows you can use Nero 
Drive Speed to send ASPI commands to the drive to slow it down, god 
knows how to do it in Linux, however mplayer does have the option to 
specify the DVD read-speed (and CD read speed too).  Just use the switch 
-dvd-speed X where X is either a speed in KB/sec such as about 1350 for 
1X DVD speed or X could also be the DVD speed in rating, so 2 for 2X 
speed (I'm assuming mplayer is inteligent to realise that we haven't got 
1350X Speed DVD drives yet).

You do need write access to the device though to be able to get mplayer 
to fix the speed, and I'm not sure if it just covers mplayer for that 
instance or if it sets it until the machine is rebooted or it's reset to 
another speed.

By the way, Grant with regards to the PS2 being noisy though, take it 
you haven't used an XBOX 360 for DVD playback? ;-)  Now THAT's noisy! 
(big noisy fans!)

Rob


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