[MPlayer-users] Cache limit...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:59:20AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:01:27 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > you play it at 1x? (hdparm -E 1 /dev/cdrom). 
> 
> That does not work for DVD-ROMs, so you're stuck with "buzzsaw" effect
> anyhow...  Better at least to have silence the other 95% of the time.

Works great on my DVD-ROM drive.

> In any case, I'm rather sure you *do* save power when you cache data
> that would otherwise have to be read from your hard drive (can't lower
> the speed on it).

Actually you can. See hdparm -M 128.

Rich