DVD spinning speed

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Halfgaar

Hello,

I've got a BENQ-DVD player in my computer and I use PowerDVD4 XP. I have the
following problem: All dvd's but one (U571) are played at rotation speeds
of 1x or 2x, so the drive is not or hardly audible. But with U571 it runs
at full speed, so besides the movie sound I have to listen to this turbine
spinning all the time. Is there a way to fix this? Are there for example
tools for setting the dvd read speed? I've searched but found nothing.

TIA

Halfgaar
 
Halfgaar said:
I've got a BENQ-DVD player in my computer and I use PowerDVD4 XP. I have the
following problem: All dvd's but one (U571) are played at rotation speeds
of 1x or 2x, so the drive is not or hardly audible. But with U571 it runs
at full speed, so besides the movie sound I have to listen to this turbine
spinning all the time. Is there a way to fix this? Are there for example
tools for setting the dvd read speed? I've searched but found nothing.
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It is most likely that the disk is unbalanced or warped.

Otherwise, Nero 6 contains utility to limit the drive speed, don't know of
any others.
 
Alien said:
It is most likely that the disk is unbalanced or warped.
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I can very clearly hear that the disc spins faster then usual. Normally,
when I insert the DVD, it rotates quite fast. Then when I press play on
Powerdvd it spins down and the movie starts playing. With U571, it doesn't
spin down at all. It's not inbalance noise or something like it.
 
Halfgaar said:
I can very clearly hear that the disc spins faster then usual.
Normally, when I insert the DVD, it rotates quite fast. Then when I
press play on Powerdvd it spins down and the movie starts playing.
With U571, it doesn't spin down at all. It's not inbalance noise or
something like it.
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No he never said that the imbalance was anything to do with the noise, there
could be a miniscule warp on the disc that's causing the issue.
 
Bastet said:
No he never said that the imbalance was anything to do with the noise,
there could be a miniscule warp on the disc that's causing the issue.
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Why would the disk spin faster if there is a warp on the disc?
 
Halfgaar said:
I've got a BENQ-DVD player in my computer and I use PowerDVD4 XP. I have the
following problem: All dvd's but one (U571) are played at rotation speeds
of 1x or 2x, so the drive is not or hardly audible. But with U571 it runs
at full speed, so besides the movie sound I have to listen to this turbine
spinning all the time. Is there a way to fix this? Are there for example
tools for setting the dvd read speed? I've searched but found nothing.
Click to expand...
Just found another such utility. If you have Nero Burning Rom 5.5 or later
then you should have Nero DriveSpeed in Ahead Nero / Nero Toolkit.
 
Alien said:
Just found another such utility. If you have Nero Burning Rom 5.5 or later
then you should have Nero DriveSpeed in Ahead Nero / Nero Toolkit.
Click to expand...

I don't have nero 5.5. I did find a nero dvd speed utility, but it didn't
allow me to set the dvd-speed. The only thing I could set that had to do
with the dvd-speed, was the maximum speednumber on the vertical axis of the
read-speed diagram. The tool is a benchmarking program.

I also found CD-Bremse, a german program. But the only drivespeed I can set
with that is 16x, which is the max of my drive. Not very useful.

Any other ideas anyone?

Halfgaar
 
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