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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:09:16 +0100 > tom wrote: > > >> Grant Sewell wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just about to setup a "Media Centre" type machine (well, recycle an >>> oldish but quiet and powerful-enough machine) and I was having a >>> think... if watching a DVD on the machine directly (rather than >>> ripping and watching the rip), the DVD drive will be in use during >>> the movie. Is there a way to slow down the maximum speed a drive >>> can work at? I don't particularly want it blaring away at 8x >>> unnecessarily so. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> Grant. :) >>> >>> >>> >> IIRC the DVD drive will run as fast as is necessary to dump the data >> from it so slowing it down would cause problems. >> If noise from the DVD is a problem could you put the DVD in another >> machine (in another room) and access it via a fast network >> connection? And then rip the data as you watch just in case you fall >> asleep and feel you may want to re-watch it! Haven't seen a film >> worth watching let alone re-watching for a while now... >> Tom te tom te tom >> > > Alas, that would require at least 2 machines running just to watch a > DVD. Currently we watch movies on the PS2, and that's too noisey too! > > Would a movie being watched in "realtime" (as opposed to being ripped > and played) played at 1x or 2x not be perfectly acceptable? I was > under the impression that the original DVD players (back when DVD movies > were first introduced) played them at that speed fine. > 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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html