[PATCH] spin up drive at open

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:54:45PM -0400, Steven Walter wrote:
> My DVD-ROM drive exhibits the peculiar behavior of refusing to properly
> authenticate if the drive is not "spun up."  Previously I had worked around
> this by starting my media player "dd if=/dev/dvd of=/dev/null; mplayer
> dvd://" and just hitting Ctrl+C once the drive made enough noise :-)
> 
> However, I've found that the attached patch fixes this issue for me, and
> allows the drive to authenticate and movie-viewing to proceed smoothly,
> whether the drive was spinning to begin with or not.  I am not, however,
> sure that this is the correct way to fix things.  Does this even belong in
> libdvdcss, or in some other software component entirely?  Please advise.

I suggest you to propose this on the libdvcss-devel mailing list.  Given
that this appears to be Linux-specific I wouldn't have high hopes of the
patch getting accepted.  But possibly a different solution can be found.

Diego

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