Re: Trouble with DVD Play in 1.9.2.beta

Adam Charrett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.freevo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Jim Duda wrote:

> I'm having trouble playing DVDs with the new beta release.
>
> When I select a DVD to play, freevo does a "scan" of the 83 items on the DVD, then
> lists the items, but I cannot play anything.
>
> I know that freevo is mounting the dvd because:
>
> lroom# mount | grep dvd
> /dev/sr0 on /mnt/dvd type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,utf8)
>
> I get these messages if I attempt to select VIDEO_TS after the scan:
>
> WARNING: mounting '/mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS': mount: can't find /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 574, in <module>
>    kaa.main.run()
<snip>
>    self._handle_play_item(menu, event)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line 663, in _handle_play_item
>    action(arg=arg, menuw=self)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/video/videoitem.py", line 593, in play
>    self.__play(arg, menuw)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/video/videoitem.py", line 670, in __play
>    util.mount(os.path.dirname(self.filename))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/util/fileops.py", line 418, in mount
>    traceback.print_stack()
<snip>

This looks like a bug, I think is should be trying to mount /mnt/dvd not 
/mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS.

>
> My local_conf.py has this:
>
> ROM_DRIVES = [ ('/mnt/dvd',   '/dev/dvd',   'DVD') ]  \
>
> My /etc/fstab has this:
>
> /dev/dvd           /mnt/dvd                auto    ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Nothing wrong here, but I suspect that Freevo is not detecting the disc 
as a DVD, what does "mminfo /dev/dvd" say about the disc?

Cheers

Adam

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