I recently purchased a new dvd player for my myth box, a NEC 2510. Linux recognizes it at startup, however when I pop in a disk and hit the play dvd button, nothing happens. I can play CD's just find but no DVD's

I know this is a fairly new player (Dual Layer burner) but there was no issue having it recognized when the OS booted up initially. Also when I try and rip a CD I get

"Unable to connect to your Transcoding Daemon, Please hit any number key to proceed. If you are still seeing this message something is really wrong"

Cesman, I have searched the forum before asking.

But have you search the mythtv archives? In an xterm then start the frontend. Check the archives, you may find more detail as to why it doesn't start or how to make it start. You can also put mtd in ~/.fwvm/.fvwm2rc

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cesman

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This same drive (great deal I must add) is what I am using and the stock Knoppmyth works perfectly once I followed the setup tips and howtos here. Good luck, it has been a great and quiet drive. I am now playing with the Dvd burning scripts with it and waiting for dual layer media to be more available.

mtd -d

will throw it in daemon mode


curious however, why it doesn't autostart on any knoppmyth box I have?