On Tue, 2026-01-20 at 08:25 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Sorry, when I said the player requires the device to be mounted I was > referring to the Blueray player software.
That much I understood already. > When I put the disc into the device I get a prompt from Fedora as to > what I want to do with the device, which relative to mounting the > device seems to only offer "Mount and Open". If I ignore the prompt > or just close it the device is not mounted and the Blueray Player > Software can't see the device to search for playable media, hence the > warning that the device must be mounted to be able to play the media, > and, that is via the software's "Open Disc" mechanism, not "Open > File" or "Open Folder". I think you'll find that a player's "open disc" option probably refers to a particular method of playing, rather than open a disc in a drive that's currently being ignored by the desktop. With various players, "open file" lets you pick a file to play, that one's fairly obvious in what you can expect it to do. Though some make life difficult by only letting pick one file, you can't group-select several. :-( "Open folder" may simply play all playable files in a directory in alphabetical order, or it might look through all the files' metadata and order them in track number, or maybe look for an well-known playlist filename to load (e.g. playlist.m3u for some software). "Open disc" may do something similar, opening the files from some path that's probably a (mounted) disc but may be copies of one in a local folder, but looks for the usual first files in VCDs/DVDs/Blurays and act like a player with disc in it (load playback menus, etc). Some give options to ignore disc menus, and just play the first main title (that means the feature film, not the title-choosing menu screens). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
