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5 <TITLE>CD, DVD, VCD - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE> |
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10 <BODY> |
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| 7047 | 13 <H2><A NAME="drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></H2> |
| 1682 | 14 |
| 6877 | 15 <P>Linux documentation excerpt:</P> |
| 1612 | 16 |
| 6878 | 17 <P>Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives |
| 18 are capable of running at reduced speeds. There are several reasons that might | |
| 19 make you consider changing the speed of a CD-ROM drive:</P> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 <UL> | |
| 6960 | 22 <LI>There have been reports of read errors at these high speeds, especially |
| 6878 | 23 with badly pressed CD-ROMs. Reducing the speed can prevent data loss under |
| 24 these circumstances.</LI> | |
| 25 <LI>Many CD-ROM drives are annoyingly loud, a lower speed may reduce the | |
| 26 noise.</LI> | |
| 27 </UL> | |
| 1612 | 28 |
| 6877 | 29 <P>You can reduce the drive speed with hdparm or a program called setcd. |
| 30 It works like this:</P> | |
| 31 | |
| 32 <P> <CODE>hdparm -E [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P> | |
| 1682 | 33 |
| 34 <P> <CODE>setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 35 |
| 6877 | 36 <P>You can also try</P> |
| 1682 | 37 |
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38 <P> <CODE>echo current_speed:4 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P> |
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| 6877 | 40 <P>but you will need root privileges. The following command may also help:</P> |
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42 <P> <CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P> |
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| 6877 | 44 <P>This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs. |
| 45 It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm:</P> | |
| 1682 | 46 |
| 47 <P> <CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 48 |
| 6877 | 49 <P>This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man |
| 50 page for a detailed explanation).</P> | |
| 1612 | 51 |
| 6877 | 52 <P>Please refer to "<CODE>/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE>" for |
| 53 fine-tuning your CD-ROM.</P> | |
| 1612 | 54 |
| 7795 | 55 <P>FreeBSD:</P> |
| 56 | |
| 57 <P> Speed: <CODE>cdcontrol [-f device] speed [speed]</CODE></P> | |
| 58 <P> DMA: <CODE>sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1</CODE></P> | |
| 59 | |
| 6878 | 60 |
| 7047 | 61 <H2><A NAME="dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></H2> |
| 1682 | 62 |
| 7814 | 63 <P>MPlayer uses <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> for |
| 6877 | 64 DVD decryption and playback. These two libraries are contained in the |
| 7814 | 65 <CODE>libmpdvdkit2/</CODE> subdirectory of the MPlayer source tree, you |
| 6877 | 66 do not have to install them separately. We opted for this solution because |
| 5859 | 67 we had to fix a libdvdread bug, and apply a patch which adds |
| 6877 | 68 <B>cracked CSS keys caching support</B> to libdvdcss. This results in a large |
| 69 speed increase because the keys do not have to be cracked every time before | |
| 70 playing. The cracked keys are stored in the | |
| 71 <CODE>~/.mplayer/DVDKeys</CODE> directory.</P> | |
| 1612 | 72 |
| 7814 | 73 <P>MPlayer can also use system-wide <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and |
| 6877 | 74 <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> libraries, but this solution is <B>not</B> recommended, |
| 75 as it can result in bugs, library incompatibilities, and slower speed.</P> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <P>Support for DVD navigation via <CODE>dvdnav</CODE> is being worked on, but | |
| 78 not finished yet.</P> | |
| 4057 | 79 |
| 7047 | 80 <H4>Old-style DVD support - OPTIONAL</H4> |
| 4057 | 81 |
| 6877 | 82 <P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from hard disk. Compile and |
| 7814 | 83 install <B>libcss</B> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this (If MPlayer fails to |
| 6877 | 84 detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option).</P> |
| 1612 | 85 |
| 7048 | 86 <P>For the complete list of available options, please read the man page.</P> |
| 1612 | 87 |
| 6878 | 88 |
| 7047 | 89 <H2><A NAME="vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></H2> |
| 6878 | 90 |
| 91 <P>Playing standard Video CDs:</P> | |
| 92 | |
| 93 <P><CODE>mplayer -vcd <track> [-cdrom-device device]</CODE></P> | |
| 94 | |
| 95 <P>Examples:<BR> | |
| 96 <CODE>mplayer -vcd 1<BR> | |
| 97 mplayer -fs -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc</CODE></P> | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Notes: | |
| 100 <UL> | |
| 6909 | 101 <LI>Do <B>not</B> mount VCDs to play the DAT files directly! It may work |
| 6878 | 102 under Windows but will not under Linux. You have to play VCDs with the |
| 103 <CODE>-vcd</CODE> option.</LI> | |
| 104 <LI>VCD disks usually have 2 tracks: a data track (containing autostart | |
| 105 Windows playback program, karaoke data etc) and a mode-2 track (the movie). | |
| 106 So try <CODE>-vcd 2</CODE> first.</LI> | |
| 107 <LI>The default VCD device is <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE>. If your setup differs, | |
| 108 make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the | |
| 109 <CODE>-cdrom-device</CODE> option.</LI> | |
| 110 </UL> | |
| 111 | |
| 1612 | 112 </BODY> |
| 113 </HTML> |