easiest thing is to make a main menu option that issues an "eject" command in the shell
you could also make the key to do it thru X or your window manager; but making a myth option will just take a few seconds > > From: "Dave Ansell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/03/25 Fri AM 10:47:24 EST > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [mythtv-users] How to eject DVD ? > > Hi, > > My myth frontend is built in a "settop box" PC and there is no physical > access to the DVD eject button (it is stuck behind the front panel). > > The box does have an eject button which emulates the keypress "ctrl-e". > > Can anyone suggest a way (via Myth or otherwise) of detecting this > keypress and causing an "eject" command to run? ( Pitty there isnt an > eject button on the myth menu.) > > I am using Xine for DVD playback. It is OK if there is a DVD in the drive > to start with as I can map the eject keypress in Xine, but unfortunately if > the DVD starts empty then Xine just exits back to Myth. > > Any ideas? > > thx, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
