[mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?

[Brian Bosch]

On 10/28/05, Brian Bosch <bdbosch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/28/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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> > Brian Bosch wrote:
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> > >I was having the same issues with /etc/fstab being re-written by
> > fstab-sync
> > >so I am using this entry:
> > >
> > >/dev/hdb /media/cdrom iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0
> > >
> > >That is, I changed the fstype to "iso9660" from "auto" per Jarod's
> > advice,
> > >
> > >
> > Which is good for CD's, but not for DVD's.
> >
> > >and I removed "managed" from the options as this seems to cause
> > fstab-sync
> > >to leave the entry alone. This *mostly* works (the entry survives a
> > reboot)
> > >except that every now and then I have to ssh into the box and $ umount
> > >/dev/hdb. I don't know why that is... I'll have one of two problems;
> > either
> > >xine will exit very quickly after trying to play a DVD with a quick
> > flash of
> > >an error message saying something to effect that the device can't be
> > read.
> > >Or, after watching the DVD, I can't eject it from the drive.
> > >
> > >
> > DVD's are not iso9660, they're udf. I don't know why Jarod's guide
> > suggests iso9660, but I'd guess he was suggesting that for a CD drive,
> > not for a DVD drive used for both DVD's and CD's. Otherwise, it must be
> > to work around some problem in FC4, in which case you can just ignore
> > me...
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> Huh, I don't know if Jarod was trying for some kind of work-around or not.
> I have been playing with this for a few minutes and am now to the point
> where Matt is; the monitoring doesn't seem to work and the menu doesn't
> appear.
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> I'm out of time, though. I'll play around with this some more tomorrow.
>

Just a quick follow-up, this seems to be working for me:

/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf pamconsole,rw,exec,noauto,user 0 0

The DVD menu now appears as it should, even after a reboot.

Note that as I was messing around today I switched dvd drives from DVD-ROM
to a DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Not sure if that had any effect or not...
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