mounting DVD/CD, what is supposed to be in fstab ?

Amadeus W. M. amadeus84 at cablespeed.com
Mon Oct 31 03:37:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:25:55 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an issue with mythTV. Previously in FC3 I could slide in a CD or 
> DVD and mythTV would recognize the format and either mount the CD or start 
> playing the DVD. Now in FC4 that doesn't work anymore for me.
> 
> I've tried some things and when I set the fstype in fstab to udf, mythTV plays 
> DVD's automatically again.
> Unfortunately it doesn't mount a normal CD that way, so I'm still not back to 
> the way it used to be.
> I somehow can't put "auto" for fstype in fstab because in that case it will 
> mount a DVD using the iso9660 fstype (which is wrong). When that happens, 
> mythT will not recognize the disc as a DVD any more and not start playback.
> 
> Is this mouting of a DVD using the iso9660 fstype a bug ?
> 
> Does anyone have a solution ?
> 
> Regards,
> Marcel


In gnome, Desktop->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media, etc. 





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