Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:34:38 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > One of those four methods is via SCSI. When I specify that method, > > eject ejects the CD/DVD. > > charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -s /dev/sr0 > > Does > eject -r /dev/sr0 > work too ? Yes. charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -r /dev/sr0 ; ec

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 03 Jan 2023 at 21:22:00 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > VLC is not ejecting CD/DVDs when I run it as my regular user, charles. > I get the error message "qt interface error: could not eject /dev/sr0". > I have not tried it as root. eject, however, does work when run by the > same user. In

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charles Curley wrote: > If I read the source for VLC correctly, VLC uses a SCSI ioctl to attempt to > eject. > https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/gui/eject.c Yes. EjectSCSI() in line 67 does what a burn program would do for ejecting an optical medium. But the ioctl SCSI_IOCTL

VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
VLC is not ejecting CD/DVDs when I run it as my regular user, charles. I get the error message "qt interface error: could not eject /dev/sr0". I have not tried it as root. eject, however, does work when run by the same user. root@jhegaala:/dev# ll cdrom cdrw sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan