scsi dvd player

[rardoe at rarcom.com (Chris Tresco)]

What is your CPU speed and was the ide drive using DMA?



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> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> John Abreau
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:39 AM
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> Subject: scsi dvd player
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> About a year ago I installed an IDE dvdrom in one of my machines to
> experiment with, and the performance was abysmal. I had tried various
> players under linux, and mplayer gave the "best" performance at the time,
> but even that was incredibly jerky, with frequent audio dropouts.
> 
> A few weeks ago I ordered a scsi dvdrom drive (Pioneer DVD-305S, which
> appears to be the only dvdrom drive available that uses scsi). It arrived
> last week, and this morning I finally got around to installing it.
> 
> I fired up mplayer to test it, and found that it works beautifully.
> No jerkiness, no audio dropouts, and crystal clear video.
> 
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