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).
Sorry Tim, I had the option slightly wrong, the button is "Play Disc"
and if the device isn't mounted clicking on that button specifies that
no disc has been inserted. If the device has been mounted it shows the
name of the disc below that button and clicking on the button then plays
the movie.
regards,
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