W2K: why is harddisk accessed during dvd playing

[Jeff The Riffer]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jeff The Riffer wrote:
>> 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?)

No idea, really depends on what DVD playing software you are using.

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