[mythtv-users] DVD drive noise

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Sep 30 16:15:15 UTC 2007


On 09/30/2007 10:37 AM, Rod Smith wrote:
> 2) Use the hdparm utility's -E option to limit the drives speed, probably just
>    for the disc in question. I've never tried this with DVDs, but it's made it
>    possible for me to play some troublesome CDs. I can't promise this will
>    work, but it's worth a try.

IIRC, Stanley Kamithi committed a change to SVN trunk that does this
automatically when using the Internal player to play back DVD's.  So,
when 0.21 is released, it will be taken care of for you.

Mike


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