When using common PC as media director or core, the internal DVD drives often are quite noisy compared to a stand alone DVD player.
Are there any recommendations to keep the DVD spinning noise under control? Can it slow down spinning speed and still play allright?
Thanks,
Erwin
You can use hdparm: http://tinyurl.com/lbzlu (http://tinyurl.com/lbzlu):
hdparm -E 12 /dev/dvdrom
That command will set the speed of DVD driver to 12x. Note, that ndparm works with IDE drives only.
DVD drives are pretty inexpensive so you might want to just replace it. Finding a quiet drive can be a challenge (very few noise benchmarks). Luckily most are pretty quiet at 1X DVD speed, but then really boost the dB for high speed ripping.
Interestingly my old (2+yr) Memorex dvd writer while slower can rip some disks that my newer, higher speed drives (DVD BURN PIONEER DVR-115DBK, PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111C) can not. All three are quiet at 1X.
The one bad drive I've had is the Sony AD-7170S, it was too noisy at 1X playback (audible at 4m during quiet parts of movies).
HTH,
Roy