Is there a way to prevent a laptop DVD drive from winding down?

on a macbook pro, using a DVD accompanying a language textbook. The standard software likes to wind down the DVD drive on menus, which the entire DVD is comprised of, so unless I’m clicking on an item every second or so, there’s a lot of slowdown where the drive winds down, then back up, spinning beach ball everywhere… very frustrating. Any terminal tricks or whatnot I can abuse to keep it spinning?