[mythtv-users] dvd/cd combo drive question

Robin Murray robin at robinandmariette.com
Mon Dec 11 16:27:10 UTC 2006


I have a DVD/CD combo drive. When I insert a DVD movie to view, 
MythGallery pops up. I have to manually start MythDVD to view the movie. 
I'd like MythDVD to play the video automatically if it's a movie. Is 
this possible?

I'm using MythTV 0.20 over Kubuntu Edgy 6.10.

sh-3.1$ cd /dev
sh-3.1$ ls -l | grep dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           3 2006-12-08 06:55 dvd -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           3 2006-12-08 06:55 dvdrw -> hdc
sh-3.1$ ls -l | grep cd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           3 2006-12-08 06:55 cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           3 2006-12-08 06:55 cdrw -> hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom    22,   0 2006-12-08 06:55 hdc


2006-12-11 12:16:44.396 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-12-11 12:16:44.435 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
mythtv-master.local
2006-12-11 12:16:44.803 Loading from: 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2006-12-11 12:16:45.241 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-12-11 12:16:45.360 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media 
handler ext()
2006-12-11 12:16:45.362 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/hdc
2006-12-11 12:16:45.366 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/
no record for '/block/hdc/device' in database
no record for '/block/hdc/holders' in database
no record for '/block/hdc/queue' in database
no record for '/block/hdc/slaves' in database
2006-12-11 12:16:45.452 Mediamonitor: AddDevice() -- Not adding 
'/dev/hdc', it appears to be a duplicate.
2006-12-11 12:16:45.454 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media 
handler ext()
2006-12-11 12:16:45.525 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 1/2 as a 
media handler ext()
2006-12-11 12:16:45.526 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 2/2 as a 
media handler ext(gif,jpg,png)
2006-12-11 12:16:45.526 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
2006-12-11 12:16:45.775 Using NV NPOT texture extension
Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
adding: ATA:1,0,0 -- DVD_RW ND-3550A
2006-12-11 12:16:47.375 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 1/2 as a 
media handler ext()
2006-12-11 12:16:47.376 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 2/2 as a 
media handler ext(ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
2006-12-11 12:16:47.376 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
2006-12-11 12:16:47.854 Starting media monitor.
2006-12-11 12:17:22.684 Executing '/usr/bin/pmount /dev/hdc'
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
2006-12-11 12:17:22.937 Looking for: '/media/cdrom0/VIDEO_TS'
2006-12-11 12:17:22.937 Looking for: '/media/cdrom0/vcd'
2006-12-11 12:17:22.937 Looking for: '/media/cdrom0/svcd'
2006-12-11 12:17:23.005 m_MediaType: 2
2006-12-11 12:17:23.008 Media status changed...  New status is: 
MEDIASTAT_MOUNTED old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED
2006-12-11 12:17:23.008 Posting MediaEvent
2006-12-11 12:17:23.009 Found a handler
2006-12-11 12:17:23.039 XMLParse::LoadTheme using 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/gallery-ui.xml


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