> Suppose you are playing a video track [movie] which is 650 MB long.
> [I have seen upto 600 MB tracks], then what do you think is the speed
> of the CD rom drive while running? Close to max [as you call data speed]
> or close to the rate at which data is actually required to maintain
> nominal framerate? Or does it sinusoid between the max and off?
>
> Rohit
it sinusoids of course ,because generally the software is only accessing
files on the cd and not the cd drive controller, hence no rate
throttling would be done.
check the access led if yours blinks on access. That should give you
some indication.
of course depends on data caching etc...
Cheerio
Robin
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