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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>CD, DVD, VCD - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="default.css"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2><A NAME="drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></H2> <P>Linux documentation excerpt:</P> <P>Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives are capable of running at reduced speeds. There are several reasons that might make you consider changing the speed of a CD-ROM drive:</P> <UL> <LI>There have been reports of read errors at these high speeds, especially with badly pressed CD-ROMs. Reducing the speed can prevent data loss under these circumstances.</LI> <LI>Many CD-ROM drives are annoyingly loud, a lower speed may reduce the noise.</LI> </UL> <P>You can reduce the drive speed with hdparm or a program called setcd. It works like this:</P> <P> <CODE>hdparm -E [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P> <P> <CODE>setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P> <P>You can also try</P> <P> <CODE>echo current_speed:4 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P> <P>but you will need root privileges. The following command may also help:</P> <P> <CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P> <P>This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs. It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm:</P> <P> <CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P> <P>This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man page for a detailed explanation).</P> <P>Please refer to "<CODE>/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE>" for fine-tuning your CD-ROM.</P> <H2><A NAME="dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></H2> <P><B>MPlayer</B> uses <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> for DVD decryption and playback. These two libraries are contained in the <CODE>libmpdvdkit/</CODE> subdirectory of the <B>MPlayer</B> source tree, you do not have to install them separately. We opted for this solution because we had to fix a libdvdread bug, and apply a patch which adds <B>cracked CSS keys caching support</B> to libdvdcss. This results in a large speed increase because the keys do not have to be cracked every time before playing. The cracked keys are stored in the <CODE>~/.mplayer/DVDKeys</CODE> directory.</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> can also use system-wide <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> libraries, but this solution is <B>not</B> recommended, as it can result in bugs, library incompatibilities, and slower speed.</P> <P>Support for DVD navigation via <CODE>dvdnav</CODE> is being worked on, but not finished yet.</P> <H4>Old-style DVD support - OPTIONAL</H4> <P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from hard disk. Compile and install <B>libcss</B> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this (If <B>MPlayer</B> fails to detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option).</P> <P>For the complete list of available options, please read the man page.</P> <H2><A NAME="vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></H2> <P>Playing standard Video CDs:</P> <P><CODE>mplayer -vcd <track> [-cdrom-device device]</CODE></P> <P>Examples:<BR> <CODE>mplayer -vcd 1<BR> mplayer -fs -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc</CODE></P> Notes: <UL> <LI>Do <B>not</B> mount VCDs to play the DAT files directly! It may work under Windows but will not under Linux. You have to play VCDs with the <CODE>-vcd</CODE> option.</LI> <LI>VCD disks usually have 2 tracks: a data track (containing autostart Windows playback program, karaoke data etc) and a mode-2 track (the movie). So try <CODE>-vcd 2</CODE> first.</LI> <LI>The default VCD device is <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE>. If your setup differs, make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the <CODE>-cdrom-device</CODE> option.</LI> </UL> </BODY> </HTML>