Hey,

I also had this problem with r5a22 and now with r5a30.1. I looked into this and seems like the problem is in mtd (myth transcoding daemon). After I ripped a dvd, my other dvd movie would not play and eject stopped working. Unless I ejected with root proviledges.

I tried to disable autofs (auto mounting daemon) and that did not help me, but when I killed mtd, all seems to work nicely. Until I rip another dvd. Bad thing when disabling autofs is my own dvd's (dvd+r) will not play with default dvd-play command.

Bad thing is that I'm not sure if mythtv priviledges is enough for killing mtd. You could put mythtv to sudoers list and allow skill command without password. Then you could use "sudo skill mtd" and then everything works normally. When ripping next dvd, you can press numbers at startup to start mtd.

I rip really occasionally dvd's so I have not tried to do any scripts for this. Best thing would be that afted mtd completes it would stop running. Or maybe it could be killed with some script.

Well, I tried the code to add the Eject button to my setup (R5A30.2) and found that it did not work. When I dug a little deeper, I find that the device is not mounted as /dev/dvd but rather /dev/cdrom. Maybe this is part of the problem, I don't know. But it works if I change the button code to:

I was having this dvd eject problem a lot, but I always thought it was a sticky drive since it wasn't consistent. I had actually resorted to the paperclip method. Disabling autofs did the trick. An interesting side-effect of disabling autofs: it cured the skipping playback I was experiencing with mythtv's new internal dvd player as well!

Disabling autofs worked for me as well...Thanks!

Where/how do you disable autofs?

First stop the automount daemon:


Then remove the symlink that starts it at boot time: