Media insert notification

[knilch]

Hi,

building a media PC seems to be really complicated if more than one program should be used... At the moment I'm trying hard to "link" DVBViewer and TotalMedia Theatre using EventGhost in the way, that DVBViewer graph is stopped and TMT is launched automatically when the user inserts a DVD or BD. My problem now is that TMT is launched WHENEVER a disc is inserted into the drive no matter whether it's a data disc, audio cd (TMT can't play this...) or DVD/BD. Therefore I would need a functionality to distinguish between different types of media inserted. Is there an option in EventGhost to achieve this (plugin recognizes media inserted and returns for example media.inserted.DVD)?

Regards
Knilch

[jonib]

The Windows AutoPlay should be able to run different programs based on the type of disc, maybe you can disable autoplay for TMT and configure AutoPlay to run different EventGhost events with the -event commandline.

I haven't done this so I don't know if it would work, just an idea.

jonib

[knilch]

The problem is that with a running Dvbviewer Windows autoplay is never launched although a message is created and usable in Eventghost. But the message only says that media was inserted or removed and does not say which kind of media...

[jonib]

The problem is that with a running Dvbviewer Windows autoplay is never launched although a message is created and usable in Eventghost. But the message only says that media was inserted or removed and does not say which kind of media...

Hopefully someone knows a way, I'm researching how to detect disk type to maybe do a plugin but I'm having trouble finding information.

jonib

[knilch]

Assuming that a new media is inserted a plugin could at first use GetDriveType and when it detects a CD/DVD tries to read the structure. If this is successfull it could look for AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder, if found then => DVD. If file structure is not readable but type is CD/DVD then => AudioCd. And if a BMVD folder is found then => Blu Ray. Of course this is not very elegant but could work. Sadly I only hve SOME experience in Delphi, but can't do any coulding using Python...

[jonib]

Of course this is not very elegant but could work.

I would prefer the elegant way, but if that fails, anything goes.

Sadly I only hve SOME experience in Delphi, but can't do any coulding using Python...

I had(have) basically no experience in Python before I started to work on my XBMCRepeat plugin, and mostly worked with Pascal/Delphi before, and I was surprised how easy it was to start working with Python at least when having some examples to look at.

jonib

[knilch]

So you will look into the elegant way? Because my wife is putting me under pressure getting HTPC to work and I can't work under pressure

[jonib]

So you will look into the elegant way?

Yes, but I can't guarantee when or if I make a plugin, so if you find another solution don't wait for me.

jonib