[lug] DVD recommendations

[Scott A. Herod]

"Timothy C. Klein" wrote:
> 
> * Scott A. Herod (herod at dimensional.com) wrote:
> > You will need a DVD drive and typically the kernel needs to have SCSI
> > support built in because SCSI emulation is required for the DVD drive.
> > My experience is that DVD drives are well supported in linux.
> 
> I think you might be confusing this with CD-RW.  In my case, scsi was
> not only not needed, it was not *wanted*.  With the generic scsi, you
> don't get direct access to the hardware.  Thus, if you are using the
> software decoding of DeCSS, you get choppy, bad performance.  Whatever
> software I am using to decode DVDs actually printed a big warning when I
> first ran it, because the DVD drive was being accessed through generic
> scsi.  And performance was *bad* that way (on a Athlon 1.2 Mhz, with
> a 10X DVD drive).
> 
> Tim
> --

Ack!  You are right!  I have "hdc=ide-scsi" as a boot option but I had
to check my notes and sure enough it's there because I want to write
CDs.

Scott