[MPlayer-users] Possible serious problem in mplayer with changing dvd drive speed

[Klaus Müller]

Ergzay wrote:

> I noticed mplayer can set the dvd drive speed using -dvd-speed. The man

Note that at present, -dvd-speed works for Linux only.
On your Mac this option is useless atm.

> page says that it will reset the dvd drive speed to normal on exit. What
> if mplayer crashes or is given a kill -9? Will it still set it back? I

No.

> do not myself know how to manually change drive speeds so I am worried
> that if I might use this option (or someone even less experienced with
> mplayer using this option) then the dvd drive speed will get stuck at
> some value.

Restarting MPlayer with -dvd-speed x (x > 0) and exiting normally,
resets drive speed.

Ejecting and reinserting a dvd resets the drive speed to
its maximum (Darwin/Mac OS X).
> 
> Ergzay
> 
mk