[MPlayer-users] -ss in DVD broken ?

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 27 January 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
[...]
> However, cdrom noise should not be a problem. Go grab cdctl
> (http://cdctl.sf.net) and run cdctl -b5 to set your cdrom down to 5x
> and it should be silent. Note that you normally have to do this every
> time you switch media, but it's still VERY nice!

hdparm should be able to do it for most CD drives (hdparm -E 5 /dev/hdX).

However, my current DVD drive
$ hdparm -i /dev/hdd
[...]
 Model=SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606, FwRev=BS13, SerialNo=
[...]
doesn't seem to support speed-setting:
$ hdparm -E 6 /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
setting cdrom speed to 6
 CDROM_SELECT_SPEED failed: Input/output error

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