tyler_durden;146015 Wrote: 
> This is how CD and DVD player's work.  The data is recorded at "constant
> linear velocity"- i.e. each bit on the disc is physically the same size,
> so at the start of the disc when the laser is reading near the spindle,
> the disc spins very fast.  As the laser moves away from the spindle,
> the disc slows down.  The speed is constantly decreasing as the disc is
> played/recorded.

understood.  but what cliveb was saying is that in addition to the
speed change you describe, the speed of the drive is also adjusted to
stay in sync with the clock of DAC to keep the bit flow into the buffer
at the same rate as it is clocked out for the DAC.  it seems to me that
trying to keep a mechanical drive in sync with a clock is not an easy
thing.


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