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1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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5 <TITLE>CD, DVD, VCD - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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13 <H2><A NAME="drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></H2>
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15 <P>Linux documentation excerpt:</P>
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17 <P>Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives
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18 are capable of running at reduced speeds. There are several reasons that might
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19 make you consider changing the speed of a CD-ROM drive:</P>
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21 <UL>
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22 <LI>There have been reports of read errors at these high speeds, especially
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23 with badly pressed CD-ROMs. Reducing the speed can prevent data loss under
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24 these circumstances.</LI>
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25 <LI>Many CD-ROM drives are annoyingly loud, a lower speed may reduce the
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26 noise.</LI>
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29 <P>You can reduce the drive speed with hdparm or a program called setcd.
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30 It works like this:</P>
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31
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32 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>hdparm -E [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P>
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34 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P>
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36 <P>You can also try</P>
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38 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>echo current_speed:4 &gt; /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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40 <P>but you will need root privileges. The following command may also help:</P>
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42 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 &gt; /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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44 <P>This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs.
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45 It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm:</P>
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47 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P>
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49 <P>This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man
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50 page for a detailed explanation).</P>
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52 <P>Please refer to "<CODE>/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE>" for
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53 fine-tuning your CD-ROM.</P>
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56 <H2><A NAME="dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></H2>
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58 <P><B>MPlayer</B> uses <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> for
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59 DVD decryption and playback. These two libraries are contained in the
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60 <CODE>libmpdvdkit2/</CODE> subdirectory of the <B>MPlayer</B> source tree, you
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61 do not have to install them separately. We opted for this solution because
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62 we had to fix a libdvdread bug, and apply a patch which adds
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63 <B>cracked CSS keys caching support</B> to libdvdcss. This results in a large
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64 speed increase because the keys do not have to be cracked every time before
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65 playing. The cracked keys are stored in the
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66 <CODE>~/.mplayer/DVDKeys</CODE> directory.</P>
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68 <P><B>MPlayer</B> can also use system-wide <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and
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69 <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> libraries, but this solution is <B>not</B> recommended,
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70 as it can result in bugs, library incompatibilities, and slower speed.</P>
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71
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72 <P>Support for DVD navigation via <CODE>dvdnav</CODE> is being worked on, but
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73 not finished yet.</P>
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75 <H4>Old-style DVD support - OPTIONAL</H4>
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77 <P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from hard disk. Compile and
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78 install <B>libcss</B> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this (If <B>MPlayer</B> fails to
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79 detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option).</P>
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81 <P>For the complete list of available options, please read the man page.</P>
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84 <H2><A NAME="vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></H2>
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86 <P>Playing standard Video CDs:</P>
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88 <P><CODE>mplayer -vcd &lt;track&gt; [-cdrom-device device]</CODE></P>
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90 <P>Examples:<BR>
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91 <CODE>mplayer -vcd 1<BR>
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92 mplayer -fs -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc</CODE></P>
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94 Notes:
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95 <UL>
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96 <LI>Do <B>not</B> mount VCDs to play the DAT files directly! It may work
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97 under Windows but will not under Linux. You have to play VCDs with the
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98 <CODE>-vcd</CODE> option.</LI>
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99 <LI>VCD disks usually have 2 tracks: a data track (containing autostart
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100 Windows playback program, karaoke data etc) and a mode-2 track (the movie).
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101 So try <CODE>-vcd 2</CODE> first.</LI>
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102 <LI>The default VCD device is <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE>. If your setup differs,
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103 make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the
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104 <CODE>-cdrom-device</CODE> option.</LI>
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108 </HTML>