[mythtv-users] DVD on Frontends won't eject

[Ma Begaj]

2007/12/31, Per Jørgensen <myth at pbj-design.dk>:
> Hey Userlist.
>
> I have a Under the stairs solution running.
>
> But I have a problem about the DVD in the Frontends.
> I looks to me as thay aren't visible to the backend. So each time I
> press the eject button etc. I'll get an error about the DVD isn't
> mounted - and aren't able to see the DVD.
>
> I have shared from the backends all my storage - so all frontends have
> access to this using NFS.
> But how do I make the DVD-rom's in all my frontends visible/controlled
> by the backend - so when I want to eject the media - it'll do it -
> Caurse right now I only get an error and are needed to go into
> commandline to unmount the drive - press the ejectbutton manually.
>
> So any ideas suggestion are mostly welcome.
>
 DVD/CD drive cannot be ejected if you added it to ignore list or you
disabled "drive watching" (it think, it is called like this).

You can use a workaround for this. Change the xml files which contain
"Eject Media" to run your command to eject this. Example:

root at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv# grep Eject *.xml
musicmenu.xml:      <text>Eject media</text>
optical_menu.xml:      <text>Eject media</text>
videomenu.xml:      <text>Eject media</text>


Comment out or delete "<action>EJECT</action>" and add:
<exec>/usr/bin/eject -T /dev/dvd</exec>

"-T" closes the drive if open and opens it if closed.