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7 <A NAME=4.1>4.1. CD-ROM drives
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9 From Linux documentation:
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11 Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several
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12 reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may
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13 benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very
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14 high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these
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15 drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can
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16 prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can
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17 make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce.
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18
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19 The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda
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20 old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. (UPDATE : new hdparm
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21 has an option for this !)
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22 Use it with :
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23
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24
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25 setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]
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27
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28 Also you can try :
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30
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31 echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings
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32
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33
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34 but you'll need root privileges. I use following command too :
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35
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36
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37 echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings
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38
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39
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40 for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs).
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41 It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm :
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42
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43
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44 hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)
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45
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46
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47 to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking.
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48 (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*)
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49
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50 Please refer to "/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings" for fine-tuning your
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51 CDROM.
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52
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55 <A NAME=4.2>4.2. DVD drives
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56
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57 IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This
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58 is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're
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59 capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems.
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60 Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course.
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61
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62 This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users!
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63
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64 First, you must compile and install libcss on your system.
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65 Second, you have to recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with libcss support. There is
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66 autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below :
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67
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68 Call ./configure script of <B>MPlayer</B> with these options:
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69
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70 ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
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71
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72 (of course you can append your favourite options as well)
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73
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74 --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib
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75 Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should
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76 be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well.
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77
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78 --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
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79 Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss.
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80
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81 mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob
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82
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83 where,
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84
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85 '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells <B>MPlayer</B> the device name of your DVD drive.
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86 it's used in disc authentication process
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87
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88 the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc
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89
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90 Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root
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91 privileges so you must run <B>MPlayer</B> as root! (see section 'Problems').
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92
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93 NOTE about the sound:
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94 It seems that <B>MPlayer</B> sometimes fails to find the first audio stream.
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95 You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example.
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96 Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section
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97 'Problems'.
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99 On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion
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100 capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70%
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101 CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is
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102 not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ...
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103 Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends
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104 xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines
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105 like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about
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106 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows
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107 DVD viewers).
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108
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109 Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I
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110 can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on
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111 my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions
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112 (KNI code is no use for my k6-2).
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113
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114 HOT NEWZ:
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115 We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-)
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118 Problems (TODO)
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119
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120 * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies.
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121 this is strange since OMS can do it as user too.
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122 * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test <B>MPlayer</B>.
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123 some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have
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124 no sound at all.
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125 IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ...
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126 * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing
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127 effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame).
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129
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130 Feature TODO
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131
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132 * chapter scanner
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133 * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well
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134 (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see
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135 'Problems' above)
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136 * DVD menu
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137 I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't
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138 know how can it be used.
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139 (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to
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140 parse *.ifo files)
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141 * subtitle support
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142 * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream
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143 * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB
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144 file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on.
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145 * improve performance (see 'Performance' above)
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148 No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB)
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150 End of packet while searching for PCM header
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152 DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer!
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153 (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed)
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154 MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound
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155
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156 However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'.
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159 <A NAME=4.3>4.3. DVD FAQ
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161 <B>Q: I have some problem not mentioned here ...
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162 </B>A: Read file 'DVD' as well.
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164 <B>Q: How can I actually watch DVD with MPlayer?
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165 </B>A: Ehh. Go on reading this file as well as 'DVD' (hint: you must have libcss)
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166
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167 <B>Q: So MPlayer can play DVDs? Then it must use DeCSS! You are under arrest
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168 under the XYZ#$ paragraph of the--
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169 </B>A: Get back asshole, there is no DeCSS code in MPlayer. It links to libcss.
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171 <B>Q: Seems to work but no sound.
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172 </B>A: Use '-aid 128' (or try: 128,129,...) command line switch
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173
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174 <B>Q: I have got Spanish audio instead of English (or similar problems)
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175 </B>A: See the last question/answer.
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177 <B>Q: MPlayer complains about FIBMAP or something.
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178 </B>A: Try to run MPlayer as root.
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180 <B>Q: some strange effect (interlace like thing) especially when fast moving
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181 objects are shown in the movie
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182 </B>A: known problem, we try to fix it later
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183
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184 <B>Q: DVD support in MPlayer is a piece of shit!
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185 </B>A: You're probably right :) However please contact us if you can improve it!
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187 <B>Q: Where can I get libcss package from?
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188 </B>A: Maybe from the source of OMS (www.linuxvideo.org).
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189
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190 <B>Q: How can I ... (insert some expectable DVD player feature here)
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191 </B>A: The current implementation is only for viewing VOB files from DVD.
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192 Nothing more, like subtitles, menus and so on.
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194 <B>Q: How can I set the region code of my DVD-Drive ? I don't have windows!
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195 </B>A: Use the 'regionset' tool :
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196 http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_20000215.tar.gz
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198 <B>Q: MPlayer complains about some renamed option?
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199 </B>A: For future development, old '-dvd' option was replaced by '-dvdauth'.
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200 Option '-dvd' *WILL* do the 'full disk movie' mplaying mode.
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201 But until that, '-dvd' does nothing only prints error message.
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202
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203 </PRE>
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