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

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:32 PM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
I now want to do both import CD's and burn DVD's, but I had no luck
changing the path on this page either,
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