[MPlayer-users] Handling "bursty" data sources

[Glyn]

Haas Wernfried wrote:
> > I'm trying to play a video (XviD-encoded AVI) off of a CDROM on a laptop
> other idea: play around with hdparm -E <value>, which sets the cdrom
> speed to <value>.

For me, this only fixed the problems I had on CDROMs I'd burned myself,
which refused to play at >1x speed.

Try hdparm -S <time> to set the spindown time.  man hdparm to find the
format for <time> (it's not linear).  If you increase the spindown time
and decrease the -cache size so that disc accesses always happen before
the spindown time has elapsed, everything should work again.

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