[MPlayer-users] -ss in DVD broken ?

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

DRFI>However, cdrom noise should not be a problem. Go grab cdctl
DRFI>(http://cdctl.sf.net) and run cdctl -b5 to set your cdrom down to 5x

Hmm... hdparm will work fine too and it is included in lot of linux
distributions.

DRFI>and it should be silent. Note that you normally have to do this every
DRFI>time you switch media, but it's still VERY nice!

No need to do every time; you can use "speed" mount option, like
sudo mount /mnt/cdrom -o speed=4
Or place something like this into /etc/fstab
This works much better then hdparm at least for my drive - hdparm sets
speed once, but after some timeout cdrom drops this setting and is
working on his own. Mount option controls speed always.

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Vladimir