[mythtv-users] mythvideo and removable media

[Leo Weppelman]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:05:29PM +0200, Xavier Hervy wrote:
> Leo Weppelman wrote:

> >Ah, but I understood that automount/supermount would interact badly with
> >the media dectection DVD/VCD/Audio.... And I really like the detection
> >feature.
> 
> I dont try supermount with myth because i have some trouble with kernel 
> 2.6 with fb and bootsplash.
> Can you tell me what conflics we have between autodetection and 
> supermount ? (without automount)

I got that from the documentation somewhere, I'll try to dig it up later.

> >moment I borrowed a friends collection of SG1 avi's. I'd like to watch
> >them, but I do not intent to keep them. So saving info is pretty useless.
> >It would be nice for my own private collections though. You can fetch the
> >CD-label stored with iso9660 as a way to identify the disk. [ I haven't
> >thought about removable hd's ].
> How fetch the cd label ?
> but CD-Label are not unique !
> is there a way to identify a cd ?

The isofs supports a volume id (see: mkisofs -V ) I normally supply this
parameter when burning a CD. That's why I suggested to take that as the
default CD identification and allow the user to change it in case it
is not properly filled in. The label is in the isofs 'superblock'.

> >A media handler that pulls in the contents of the disk (honoring the
> >configured filter settings) that lets you browse and play would be a nice
> >starting point I think. 
> I agree with you, but without supermount we should add an item in the 
> menu to umount the cd, and i believe that donavan don't like it.

A possibility would be to unmount the cd automatically when leaving the
the handler function.

Leo.