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

Per Jørgensen myth at pbj-design.dk
Mon Dec 31 09:16:54 UTC 2007


Ma Begaj skrev:
> 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).
>   
I haven't done that - It'll working great unless the eject part.
> 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.
>   
Great Thanks.
P
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