How to play video files burnt to a DVD

[Glidos]

Hi,
I have some video files burnt to a DVD, not in DVD format, just as data files. How do I get mythvideo to play them? I know that I can set up mythvideo to search a list of directories, so if I can arange for the DVD to be mounted, I guess I'd be there, but I don't want to ssh in an issue a mount command. I was hoping there was a better way.

[Pablo]

If you enable Myth Media Monitor, then does it work?

[Glidos]

Yes, brilliant thanks Pablo. I'd noticed the setting ages ago, when trawling the setup screens, but it didn't occur to me for this problem. With that setting enabled, I just had to change the video folder to /mnt/video:/media/dvd-sr0 and all is well.

[Glidos]

For anyone else who runs into this problem: you have to reboot the frontend after enabling monitoring, presumably because the feature is implemented by a daemon, started at boot time.

[Glidos]

This has stopped working. In messages, I get:

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May  6 08:56:20 slinky local0.info mythfrontend: Error: could not open fstab-type file: No such file or directory
May  6 08:56:20 slinky local0.info mythfrontend: 2010-05-06 08:56:20.479 Failed to mount /dev/dvd-sr0.

I've tried 72, 72b8 and 72b9. Same on all of them. Strange thing is, I'm pretty sure I was on 72 when you first
told me how to solve this problem. Although that's not certain: I may have waited for a release of 0.22 for SuSE
before upgrading. I haven't changed any config as far as I know. It's all a bit weird.

[Pablo]

This is a pmount error (mythfrontend is calling pmount).

Do you see anything interesting when you run the command

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/usr/bin/pmount -d /dev/dvd-sr0

[Glidos]

Thanks for the reply. pmount says:

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resolved /dev/dvd-sr0 to device /dev/dvd-sr0
Checking for device '/dev/dvd-sr0' in '/etc/fstab'
-> not found
mount point to be used: /media/dvd-sr0
no iocharset given, current locale encoding is UTF-8
locale encoding uses UTF-8, setting iocharset to 'utf8'
locale encoding uses UTF-8: will mount FAT with utf8 optionCleaning lock directory /var/lock/pmount_dev_dvd-sr0
Checking for device '/dev/dvd-sr0' in '/etc/mtab'
Error: could not open fstab-type file: No such file or directory


[davidgreem]

According to me it will not work with DVD, it cant able to play those files which are burn as a data in a DVD.It is not supported by any Player or so.

[Glidos]

According to me it will not work with DVD, it cant able to play those files which are burn as a data in a DVD.It is not supported by any Player or so.

I'm not sure I'm follwing what you are saying. Are you saying this wouldn't be expected to work? The thing is it was working a while back. Actual DVDs with VOBs etc would not be mounted, but a data disc with .m4v or .mp4 files would be.