Re: [Utopia] KDE Volume Manager

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:34 +0200, Jerome Lodewyck wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, David Zeuthen wrote:
<snip>
> > > check for tracks and eventually play it. But for VCD, it is much more
> > > complicated since xine (I haven't checked other players) doesn't play
> > > mounted VCD's. So the steps are : mounting, checking for tracks,

xine-lib can play mounted VCDs.

> > > unmounting and playing. Quite tricky and lengthy. So a volume.disc.is_vcd
> > > would be much more convenient.
> > >
> >
> > Yup, we kind of discussed what the hal daemon should and shouldn't do on
> > the hal mailing list on freedesktop.org a while back. I think the
> > conclusion was that HAL should stay out of policy and only care about
> > presenting the device objects it sees in a somewhat abstract way with
> > minimal interference to the system (e.g. don't do any invasive polling
> > etc. that breaks existing software).
> 
> I agree. However, a non-ivasive polling for VCD would be nice... Is there
> a VCD expert on this list ?

libcdio can detect whether a CD is a VCD without mounting it. Can't
detect video DVDs yet though, otherwise Totem would already be using it
[1].

<snip>

[1]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131814
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