[mythtv-users] MythDVD auto load?

Al McIntosh junkmail at allanmcintosh.com
Tue Feb 28 16:22:59 UTC 2006


Stephen Dolan wrote:

>On 2/27/06, Al McIntosh <junkmail at allanmcintosh.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey,
>>
>>I am trying to get Myth automagically go the MythDVD screen when I place
>>dvd into the computer.
>>
>>Under general settings I selected monitor for dvd, under dvd playback I
>>chose
>>go to mythdvd screen when dvd is detected.
>>mtd is running (not sure if this is required) but when I put in a dvd
>>nothing happens.
>>
>>In my frontend logs I see "Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a
>>media handler"
>>mtd logs DVD inserted:......
>>
>>Am I missing something? Are there any window manager requirements?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Al,
>
>I had exactly the same problem as you and finally found that the
>problem was that I didn't have an entry for /dev/cdrom in my
>/etc/fstab file. Once I added a line like this :
>
>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro,user
>         0 0
>
>everything worked! Might not be the cause of your problem, but its worth a look.
>
>Stephen
>  
>


Stephen, that was the issue. I had /dev/hdd instead of /dev/cdrom. I 
corrected my fstab, restarted the frontend and it worked.

Thanks big guy! ;)




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