[mythtv-users] Multiple ODD drives

[Stuart Morgan]

On Wednesday 20 Nov 2013 11:15:24 Igor Cicimov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Michael T. Dean
> 
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
> > On 11/19/2013 09:33 AM, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 20 Nov 2013 01:12:32 Igor Cicimov wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> I've been looking for multiple optical drives support option in mythtv
> >>> (I'm
> >>> on latest 0.27) in terms of playback and seams I can't get around this
> >>> problem. In case I have multiple drives, or as in my case one DVD and
> >>> one
> >>> BD how can I specify which drive to play from when I go to "Watch A
> >>> Disc"
> >>> menu? I can see an option for specifying dvd and bluray device in the
> >>> fontend multimedia settings whcih I have done but when I press the above
> >>> mentioned menu it always tries to open /dev/dvd. Am I missing something?
> >> 
> >> The decision about which drive to use, or even whether there are multiple
> >> drives to be used, depends on the use of udev (libudev) and the dbus
> >> udisks
> >> service. If either udev or dbus
> > 
> > or udisks (which is a separate package).
> 
> Maybe I haven't made my self clear enough. I don't have any problem
> mounting the drives or playing that is all working fine. My question is
> simple, if I have a disk in the both drives how do I tell mythtv which one
> to play when I  press "Watch a disc" from the menu? By default it always
> goes to the first one, which in this case is /dev/dvd. What if I want to
> play from the second one /dev/dvd1? Hope my question is more clear now.

No we understood. What we're saying is that if just one drive is detected as 
having a disc in it, then this drive is used. If both drives have a disc then 
a menu is displayed asking which disc you want to play. This functionality 
depends on it correctly determining whether there are discs in the drives, 
which in turn depends on udisks et al correctly reporting this information to 
mythfrontend.
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Stuart Morgan
MythTV