[mythtv-users] DVD/Blu-Ray set-up

[John Pilkington]

On 06/06/2019 16:37, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:00 AM Stephen Worthington 
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 23 May 2019 06:38:37 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>      >On Wed, May 22, 2019, 20:22 Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:perkins1724 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On 23 May 2019 3:53:03 am Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com
>     <mailto:darylangela at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 1:19 PM John Pilkington
>     <johnpilk222 at gmail.com <mailto:johnpilk222 at gmail.com>>
>      >>> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>>> On 13/05/2019 14:58, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>      >>>>
>      >>>> >
>      >>>> > I installed mythplugins and things seem to be going well,
>     sorry for
>      >>>> the
>      >>>> > noise, talking/typing it out helped me.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Yes, I suppose before you didn't have MythArchive Settings,
>     for use when
>      >>>> *burning* disks...
>      >>>>
>      >>>
>      >>> I burned the videos that I needed for now with Brasero, so it's
>     just a
>      >>> niggle that I still can't burn within Mythtv archive settings.
>     The GUI wont
>      >>> let me select /dev/sr0 or 1, because they're not directories (I
>     think):
>      >>>  daryl at trieli:~$ ls -al /dev/dvd
>      >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 22 13:36 /dev/dvd -> sr1
>      >>> daryl at trieli:~$ ls -al /dev/sr*
>      >>> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 22 13:36 /dev/sr0
>      >>> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 22 13:36 /dev/sr1
>      >>> daryl at trieli:~$ ls -al /dev/dvb
>      >>> total 0
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  140 May 22 13:36 .
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 5140 May 22 13:58 ..
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 May 22 13:36 adapter0
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 May 22 13:36 adapter1
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 May 22 13:36 adapter2
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 May 22 13:36 adapterHP1250
>      >>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 May 22 13:36 adapterPC800i
>      >>> daryl at trieli:~$
>      >>> I can select /dev/dvb and now that I changed the original
>     settings I
>      >>> can't even go back to /dev/dvd. I have two ROM drives, CD/DVD and
>      >>> CD/DVD/Blu-Ray sr0 and sr1 respectively. How can I set this up
>     properly? Is
>      >>> there a way to change the appropriate locations to
>     directories?  TIA  Daryl
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>      >>> Did you check permissions ie check mythtv user / desktop user /
>     correct
>      >> user is member of cdrom group?
>      >> __________________________________________
>      >>
>      >No. Where can I find it to do so?
> 
>      >From a command prompt:
> 
>     stephen at mypvr:~$ groups
>     stephen adm cdrom sudo dip video plugdev syslog mythtv sambashare
>     lpadmin wireshark vboxusers lirc
> 
>     So my normal mythfrontend user is a member of the cdrom group.
> 
>     stephen at mypvr:~$ sudo -u mythtv groups
>     [sudo] password for stephen:
>     mythtv dialout cdrom audio video lirc
> 
>     And so is the mythtv user.
> 
>     If, for example, the mythtv user is not a member of cdrom, then this
>     will fix it:
> 
>     sudo usermod -a -G cdrom mythtv
> 
> daryl at trieli:~$ groups
> daryl adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare mythtv
> daryl at trieli:~$ sudo -u mythtv groups
> [sudo] password for daryl:
> mythtv dialout cdrom audio video
> daryl at trieli:~$
>  From your example Stephen, it looks like my groups are fine. The 
> problem persists however. When I attempt to adjust the player settings I 
> can't just re-type the path, as I did in .25, now in .29 I must follow a 
> directory progression, and I'm unable to select /dev/sr0. Is this 
> behaviour any different in .30? Is ther another way to adjust my setting?

I haven't re-read all this in depth, but I believe you are hoping to 
*write* to the optical disk, not play it.  So you probably need to go to

Setup > Media Settings > Archive Files Settings > Location of DVD

The procedure for manipulating the GUI may have changed recently, but I 
would think you could change the name there.  I'm afraid I used to 
create an .iso file with an embedded checksum (for future use) and 
burn/verify with k3b.

HTH

John P