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Need to quiet down DVD unit - porubat - 2009-04-27 Hi, when I play e.g. DVD video before I started to use XBMC, I have run this command "eject -x <speed> [device]" with <speed> 2 or 4 an [device] my DVD unit, which cause the DVD unit to be more more silent. My unit support this command. Is there in XBMC any posibility, to execute this command or some another (hdparm), to quiet down the DVD unit? Or is is supported now in XBMC? Best regards Tomas. - althekiller - 2009-04-27 You have to be root to run those command. It is STUPID to run XBMC as root. Why not stick them in rc.local or similar to just have them run at boot time? - porubat - 2009-04-28 Runing XBMC as root is realy stupid and by shure I will never do that. I don't know if it helps to run it on boot because according to my tests, the eject (or some other) command must be run everyone after the DVD or CD disk is loaded. Yesterday I have tested it on my HTC. I have inserted the DVD disc and start play. The DVD device was very loud. I have executed "eject -x 4 /dev/dvd" (no need to be root in my case, to execute this) and the device have quied down. When I have removed the disc and insert it again, I had to repeat the eject command to quiet down the dvd device. Regards Tomas - topfs2 - 2009-04-28 porubat Wrote:Hi, If your dvdrom supports it could you please compile libcdio. (with --prefix=/foo/bar/ someplace so you don't destroy your apt-get one). And try the cdinfo bin it creates, and pastebin it here. I had a patch for slowing down the DVD previously but I couldn't find a dvd supporting it to test - porubat - 2009-04-28 Hi source http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libcdio/libcdio-0.81.tar.gz cd-info output Code: lt-cd-info version 0.81 i686-pc-linux-gnu - porubat - 2009-04-28 The cd-info output is interrestin on this line: Code: Can set drive speed : No But I'm able set the drive speed (with eject) - topfs2 - 2009-04-28 Yeah that's the one I wanted to see. Wonder why it's no when you clearly can set speed. Perhaps it's right issue? could you try calling the cdinfo with sudo? - porubat - 2009-04-29 The same result when running with sudo. |