[mythtv-users] mythvideo and removable media

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Leo Weppelman wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I would like to extend mythvideo to accept files on a CD/DVD. I have
>several CD's with .mpeg and .avi files on them. Currently if I want
>to play these, I change the video path to /cdrom. This is not really
>the way it should be.
>What I'd like to add is a way to insert a CD and get thrown into the
>video browser. So I can 'just' play what is on that CD. I don't want
>to copy stuff to the harddisk anytime I like to play it.
>
>I'd like to probe this list to search for ideas and maybe to find out
>that I want something that is already there ;-)
>  
>

This is the sort of thing the media monitor was designed to help with.  
For this you simply to register a handler for data disks, then do 
somethign once your handler gets called.