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

[Brian Bosch]

On 10/28/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Bosch wrote:
>
> >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...



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.

I'm out of time, though. I'll play around with this some more tomorrow.
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