On 02/22/16 12:10, Rick Stevens wrote: <<>> > Guys, the last 25 or 30 replies on this thread have nothing to do with <> -- while this is true, it does help maintain an observance of a thread where op is lax in replying to those who have offered suggestions of help. ;-) tho "off topic" discussing how not to 'top post' using gmail does offer guidance for op. > Angelo, I can see two possible reasons VLC may not see the insertion of > a CD or DVD once it's running: > -- tho i have not queried videoland site for operations of vlc, from what i see of release that i have, VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower, from what i have seen from this and previous versions, i tend to believe that vlc checks devices on startup and monitors the devices when open via the device drivers. i base this on fact that when vlc is open and a cd or dvd is inserted into either of my optical devices, a window pops up titled "Devices recently plugged in:". shortly after, in "Title" listing, an icon appears with type of an optical disk with device listing of either 'cdda:///dev/sr0' or 'cdda:///dev/sr0'. when i eject disc, icon disappears. such tends to indicate that vlc _knows_whats_up_. > If you're running a desktop, check it's "Multimedia" options. Generally, > the desktop will "take over" the CD/DVD drive and when new media is > inserted, the desktop will try to invoke it's preferred player to handle > it. You may have to disable that on the desktop or tell it to use VLC. > -- for some reason or other, even with having set under; System Settings > File Associations selections for both 'cd' and 'dvd' under "x-content", "Application Preference Order", "VLC media player" is at top, when i insert a cd or dvd of audio or video type, vlc does not auto start. but not a problem. > If that's not the case, you may have to have VLC rescan available > devices when you insert a new piece of media. VLC does that on startup, > but I don't think it automatically does it periodically. YOU have to > tell it to. > -- as above, with my install, vlc _monitors_ optical devices. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
