Girkers wrote:
MythTV does has a similar function but in a more basic sense, in one of the settings, I can't remember exactly where, you can tell the system to monitor the CD/DVD drive and when you insert a disc it will do something.
The drive monitor option is under [Main Menu --> Utilities/Setup --> Setup --> General --> Page 5 --> Monitor CD/DVD]
MythTV is kind of scattered, even with this enabled. I wanted to share my experience on this as someone who is new to Myth yet is experienced with computers and has had two DVRs for years. I haven't yet played with putting a DVD into the drive (DVD burner on order), but I have played around with CDs. I've tried audio CDs, SVCDs, picture CDs, regular Windows computer game CDs. [Yes, I know that Windows CDs won't work. I'm acting like a user, okay?
]ITEM: User inserts an audio cd.
User is automatically taken to the Music Tools menu [main menu -> Utilities/Setup -> Music Tools]. To actually just play the CD at that point is a crazy dance through options under "Select Music" [EDIT: and then go through a tree of suboptions, ultimately selecting the inidividual track numbers to play] then back to "Play Music". That makes NO sense at all. But from there, they can also import the CD.
ITEM: User inserts a Windows game cdrom. (Or any other readable data cdrom that doesn't contain useful media.)
The cdrom is locked into the tray. You're not getting you cdrom tray back open within the Myth interface. There is no 'eject' feature.
ITEM: User inserts (s)VCD.
They are taken to a video menu (name unknown) where they can Play DVD, Play VCD, or Rip DVD. No option to rip VCD or save to the hard drive.
ITEM: User inserts a picture CD (jpegs)
They are not automatically taken anywhere. A user must manually go into [Media Library -> Image Gallery] and run the import setting. As mentioned, upon inserting any data CD, they will not be able to eject their CD from within the Myth interface. (If I'm just missing the eject icon, let me know where, okay? I could just be blind.)
SUMMARY:
The MythTV interface, from a regular user's perspective, has some holes. Really, though, the greater problem I think is that the menu was carved up by programmer's functionality and not user's functionality. What Warped describes of the DIGA player is a good example of how it should be done...
Warped wrote:
When You put media into player, DIGA shows You nice dialog with options dependent on media contents:
-DVD/VCD/DIVX: play this
-MP3 & JPGs: import to HDD
For import function You have very simple file manager (browse tree, make dir, copy files).
-DVD/VCD/DIVX: play this
-MP3 & JPGs: import to HDD
For import function You have very simple file manager (browse tree, make dir, copy files).