I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted. The command line is set to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.' Clearly I'm missing something, but I have no idea what. Any hints?
Thanks.
On 09/30/2013 11:51 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted. The command line is set to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
The problem seems to be that the DVD isn't getting mounted before VLC tries to play it. When I put in a DVD and the window pops up, if I first double-click on the DVD's icon on the desktop to mount it and open it in Konqueror, then go back to the window and select 'Open in VLC', then VLC opens and plays it without the above error.
So the question becomes, (a) how do I make it (KIOExec?) mount the DVD before VLC tries to play it? And shouldn't it already do it right, like XFCE does?
By the way, this is on Debian Wheezy.
No one has any idea about this? Am I the only one who uses VLC to play DVDs on Trinity?
On 09/30/2013 04:06 PM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 09/30/2013 11:51 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted. The command line is set to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
The problem seems to be that the DVD isn't getting mounted before VLC tries to play it. When I put in a DVD and the window pops up, if I first double-click on the DVD's icon on the desktop to mount it and open it in Konqueror, then go back to the window and select 'Open in VLC', then VLC opens and plays it without the above error.
So the question becomes, (a) how do I make it (KIOExec?) mount the DVD before VLC tries to play it? And shouldn't it already do it right, like XFCE does?
By the way, this is on Debian Wheezy.
When I put in a DVD it automounts.
It's not that I don't do what you're doing, I just don't have the same problem.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Dan Youngquist dan@homestead-products.com wrote:
No one has any idea about this? Am I the only one who uses VLC to play DVDs on Trinity?
On 09/30/2013 04:06 PM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 09/30/2013 11:51 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted. The command line is set to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
The problem seems to be that the DVD isn't getting mounted before VLC tries to play it. When I put in a DVD and the window pops up, if I first double-click on the DVD's icon on the desktop to mount it and open it in Konqueror, then go back to the window and select 'Open in VLC', then VLC opens and plays it without the above error.
So the question becomes, (a) how do I make it (KIOExec?) mount the DVD before VLC tries to play it? And shouldn't it already do it right, like XFCE does?
By the way, this is on Debian Wheezy.
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On 10/01/2013 09:47 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
When I put in a DVD it automounts.
It's not that I don't do what you're doing, I just don't have the same problem.
And you're using VLC with Trinity?
I've seen this problem on probably 6 or 7 different machines, every time I try to play DVDs with VLC under Trinity. It works fine if I manually tell VLC to play the DVD, but it will not mount automatically without user intervention. On the same machines, it works fine under XFCE. (It also works fine with Kaffeine, but I want to use VLC.)
So clearly XFCE is doing something different; the question is, how do I make Trinity handle mounting the DVD automatically like XFCE does?
No one has any idea about this? Am I the only one who uses VLC to play DVDs on Trinity?
Remember that playing encrypted DVDs on unlicensed devices (e.g. Linux) is illegal in the United States, therefore there are a number of TDE users that cannot legally do this. This narrows the pool of potential users with your use case down somewhat. :-)
Tim
On 10/01/2013 10:24 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
Remember that playing encrypted DVDs on unlicensed devices (e.g. Linux) is illegal in the United States, therefore there are a number of TDE users that cannot legally do this. This narrows the pool of potential users with your use case down somewhat. :-)
Or at least, the pool of those willing to admit it. :) So let's assume the DVDs are unencrypted, non-commercial DVDs, as are those I'm using to try to debug this.
Now that I have your attention, Tim, can you think of any reason the disks are getting automounted under XFCE but not under Trinity?
On 10/01/2013 10:24 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
Remember that playing encrypted DVDs on unlicensed devices (e.g. Linux) is illegal in the United States, therefore there are a number of TDE users that cannot legally do this. This narrows the pool of potential users with your use case down somewhat. :-)
Or at least, the pool of those willing to admit it. :) So let's assume the DVDs are unencrypted, non-commercial DVDs, as are those I'm using to try to debug this.
Now that I have your attention, Tim, can you think of any reason the disks are getting automounted under XFCE but not under Trinity?
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If I remember correctly (using unencrypted home videos some time ago), mounting the DVD is different from playing the DVD to the point where (auto)mounting the disk can interfere with playback software. I'd have to dig up one of those disks and try it in an R14 test box to comment further.
Tim
On 10/01/2013 10:47 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
If I remember correctly (using unencrypted home videos some time ago), mounting the DVD is different from playing the DVD to the point where (auto)mounting the disk can interfere with playback software. I'd have to dig up one of those disks and try it in an R14 test box to comment further.
It works fine with Kaffeine on Trinity. It works fine with VLC on XFCE. It works fine with Parole on XFCE.
The only case that doesn't work is VLC on Trinity. That's a problem for me because VLC is the only player I'm aware of that can adjust the playback speed, which saves time, and helps make slow, boring videos less slow and boring. :)
On Monday 30 September 2013 15:06:24 you wrote:
On 09/30/2013 11:51 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted. The command line is set to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
The problem seems to be that the DVD isn't getting mounted before VLC tries to play it. When I put in a DVD and the window pops up, if I first double-click on the DVD's icon on the desktop to mount it and open it in Konqueror, then go back to the window and select 'Open in VLC', then VLC opens and plays it without the above error.
So the question becomes, (a) how do I make it (KIOExec?) mount the DVD before VLC tries to play it? And shouldn't it already do it right, like XFCE does?
By the way, this is on Debian Wheezy.
I get the same behavior as you do. The window that pops up has choices, most are related to k3b, do nothing , or ope\n in new window..which will mount it.
I will need to play around with it, later, but it this 'seems' like it could be a mine type issue, edit mime types and put the default behavior for the action you want ?
On 10/01/2013 12:03 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
I will need to play around with it, later, but it this 'seems' like it could be a mine type issue, edit mime types and put the default behavior for the action you want ?
I've added an option for 'Play with VLC', which executes the command 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in the equivalent place in XFCE. But in Trinity, VLC fails with the error in my first post on this problem: '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
But, if I double-click on the DVD's desktop icon, which mounts it and opens it in Konqueror, then close that window and go back and select 'Play with VLC', it works.
If the problem were with VLC, it wouldn't work in XFCE either, but it does. So I think the problem is something with Trinity.
I'm noticing that when I right-click "open with..." and put VLC, it's trying to open this file:
VLC could not open the file "/home/curt/system:/media/sr0/VIDEO_TS". (No such file or directory)
Of course not, because the "/home/curt/system:" part should not be appended to the directory.
Anyone else notice this?
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Dan Youngquist dan@homestead-products.com wrote:
On 10/01/2013 12:03 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
I will need to play around with it, later, but it this 'seems' like it could be a mine type issue, edit mime types and put the default behavior for the action you want ?
I've added an option for 'Play with VLC', which executes the command 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in the equivalent place in XFCE. But in Trinity, VLC fails with the error in my first post on this problem: '/media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.'
But, if I double-click on the DVD's desktop icon, which mounts it and opens it in Konqueror, then close that window and go back and select 'Play with VLC', it works.
If the problem were with VLC, it wouldn't work in XFCE either, but it does. So I think the problem is something with Trinity.
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I'm noticing that when I right-click "open with..." and put VLC, it's trying to open this file:
VLC could not open the file "/home/curt/system:/media/sr0/VIDEO_TS". (No such file or directory)
Of course not, because the "/home/curt/system:" part should not be appended to the directory.
Anyone else notice this?
This could very well be the cause, as the tdeioslave is aware of "TDE" vs. "non-TDE" applications and may have improperly rewritten the URL for VLC (a "non-TDE application).
Tim
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Timothy Pearson kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
This could very well be the cause, as the tdeioslave is aware of "TDE" vs. "non-TDE" applications and may have improperly rewritten the URL for VLC (a "non-TDE application).
When I open VLC, , "Media" "Open Disk...", and "Play" /dev/dvd, it does work. So it seems the directory issue may very well be "it".
On 10/01/2013 03:37 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
This could very well be the cause, as the tdeioslave is aware of "TDE" vs. "non-TDE" applications and may have improperly rewritten the URL for VLC (a "non-TDE application).
So how do we fix it?
On 10/01/2013 03:37 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
This could very well be the cause, as the tdeioslave is aware of "TDE" vs. "non-TDE" applications and may have improperly rewritten the URL for VLC (a "non-TDE application).
So how do we fix it?
This probably needs to be fixed in the TDE source code. Can you file a new bug report on this at http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org so that we do not lose track of it?
Thanks!
Tim
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