[MPlayer-users] -dvd-speed and write access to device

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:50:17PM -0700, scar wrote:
> i'm using MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.3 on ubuntu 10.04 and i'm trying to play
> some AVI files i have burned on a DVD.  the DVD spins too fast and is
> noisy.  i want to use -dvd-speed to slow it down, but it doesn't work.

-dvd-speed only applies to playing actual video DVDs.
hdparm is supposed to be able to set the speed.