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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-07-01 09:33:27 +0000
committerdiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-07-01 09:33:27 +0000
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Slightly restructured, mention more tools, small fixes, cosmetics.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@15880 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml
index 480ff09312..7cdf80afec 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
<sect1 id="drives">
<title>CD/DVD drives</title>
-<para>
-Linux documentation excerpt:
-</para>
<para>
Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives
@@ -27,11 +24,20 @@ Many CD-ROM drives are annoyingly loud, a lower speed may reduce the noise.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+<sect2 id="drives_linux">
+<title>Linux</title>
+
<para>
-You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with <command>hdparm</command> or a
-program called <command>setcd</command>. It works like this:
+You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with <command>hdparm</command>,
+<command>setcd</command> or <command>cdctl</command>. It works like this:
<screen>hdparm -E <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable> <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen>
<screen>setcd -x <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable> <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen>
+<screen>cdctl -bS <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable></screen>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you are using SCSI emulation, you might have to apply the settings to the
+real IDE device, not the emulated SCSI device.
</para>
<para>
@@ -44,7 +50,7 @@ This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs.
If you set it to too high, the drive will continuously spin up and down, and
will dramatically decrease the performance.
It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with <command>hdparm</command>:
-<screen>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <replaceable>cdrom device</replaceable></screen>
+<screen>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen>
</para>
<para>
@@ -63,11 +69,30 @@ Tell us!) There is a tool that works for
<ulink url="http://das.ist.org/~georg/">Plextor SCSI drives</ulink>.
</para>
-<para>FreeBSD:</para>
-<para>Speed: <command>cdcontrol [-f <replaceable>device</replaceable>] speed <replaceable>speed</replaceable></command></para>
-<para>DMA: <command>sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1</command></para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 id="drives_freebsd">
+<title>FreeBSD</title>
+
+<para>speed:
+<screen>
+cdcontrol [-f <replaceable>device</replaceable>] speed <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable>
+</screen>
+</para>
+
+<para>DMA:
+<screen>
+sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
+</screen>
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
+
+
<sect1 id="dvd">
<title>DVD playback</title>
<para>
@@ -245,6 +270,8 @@ to set the region code of your DVD drive (under Linux).
</para>
</sect1>
+
+
<sect1 id="vcd">
<title>VCD playback</title>
<para>