[mythtv-users] [Bulk] Re: MythTV does not play DVD's

[John Pilkington]

On 18/10/15 18:50, Forum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've entered `/dev/dvd` as DVD-Player, but nothing happens.
> So I've re-entered "Internal".
> MythTV wants to start to play DVD, it says "Please wait..." for some
> seconds, but afterwords, Screen gets back to menue.
>
> Maybe there is a codec issue since VLC Media Player is able to play DVD
> on same system?
>
> DM
>

I think you're unlikely to get anything other than guesses now unless 
you provide some logging info.

>
>
> Am 18.10.2015 um 15:09 schrieb John Pilkington:
>> On 18/10/15 12:56, Philip Brady wrote:
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>> As for the eject problem see
>>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11699
>>>
>>> My fix (Ubuntu 14.04) was:
>>> sudo apt-get install udisks
>>>
>>> hth
>>> Phil
>>>
>>
>> OK, thanks.  My frontend does complain about UDisks not provided and
>> it looks as if I tried a patch for UDisks2 at some stage. There was
>> some other mention of UDisks/Udisks2 quite recently.  My el7 master
>> builds haven't moved beyond the qt4/qt5 watershed yet, and I don't see
>> udisks in the el7 repos anyway.  I'm living with it - but it might
>> help someone else.
>>
>> As for the OP's problem - if it isn't SG related I suspect it might
>> arise from differences in the default ways that Myth/vlc handle the
>> various restrictive practices in dvd creation.
>>
>> John