[vdr] Re: mp3-plugin: cdda playback and cd-device speed

[Florian Bartels <vdr@envisage.de>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sebastian Kemper wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering why my Toshiba SD-M1712 keeps spinning up and down while
> playing audio cds. It plays dvds at constant speed and is quit doing so,
> but when it comes to cdda it seems that the computer caches the
> cdda-data, like it reads some of it, spins down, spins up real fast and
> reads again and so forth.
>
I guess this is exactly what the drive is doing. You should limit the
drive's speed to 2x, that way it will be very silent. Search google how to
limit the speed or visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/cd-dvd.html for a
few hints...

... good luck :-)

Florian


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