W2K: why is harddisk accessed during dvd playing

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jeff The Riffer wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>> I'm playing movie dvds (,VOB files I think) with Matrox Cine Player on
>> both a desktop and a laptop on W2K. I expected the dvd access light to
>> be on most of the time and the hard disk not to be accessed at all.
>
> Probably the DVD playback software is caching the decoded video to hard
> drive, so if you want to rewind a bit it will access faster.

oh great, great. Can I turn off this wonderful feature? 
(didn't see it mentioned in any of the options - does it 
have some other name in windows?)

> Alternatively, it could be swapping. Even with tons of RAM, windows will
> swap.

I don't know how much memory you need for a 24 bit color 
1024x768 image but it's got to be only a couple of megs. 
Groan

> Go download and install this free tool:
>
> 	http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

thanks, got it

Joe

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