Is MP locking the cd/dvd drive? (2 Viewers)

kaybe

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    I am thinking about to write a plugin to rip my CDs as mp3.
    So I was testing with CDex.
    The problem is that if MP runs, CDex cannot find any CD-Drive and shows some error messages. When I close MP CDex can find all.
    My question:
    Is it posible to disable this locking, perhaps with a funktion in the plugin to delock the CD-Drive?
     

    phpchris

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    Perhaps the same problem but MP sometimes sais no CD / DVD inserted.
    When I close MP and try to play a DVD in WMP it works like a charm, could there be a problem?
     

    Maschine

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    phpchris said:
    Perhaps the same problem but MP sometimes sais no CD / DVD inserted.
    When I close MP and try to play a DVD in WMP it works like a charm, could there be a problem?

    No, this is more a DVD codec problem. Go to the config and play around with the different video/audio decoders, the sound device and the navigator. I'm also experiencing this message with some configs.

    Maschine
     

    rtv

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    Well I think it is a bug since applications like Nero, etc can't use the driver any longer, too..
     

    waeberd

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    The "autoplay CD" and the "autoplay DVD" features grab the cd-drive and tell the other applications that the drive is busy.

    If you disable both autoplay features, does the problem still occur?

    Gucky had to disable this (myBurner) and I did the same in myPrograms.

    Daniel
     

    dragon123

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    waeberd said:
    The "autoplay CD" and the "autoplay DVD" features grab the cd-drive and tell the other applications that the drive is busy.

    If you disable both autoplay features, does the problem still occur?

    Gucky had to disable this (myBurner) and I did the same in myPrograms.

    Daniel

    I have the same problem with myCDrip. Works great outside of mediaportal but not in mediaportal, I removed the autoplay CD and DVD but the drives are still locked, any easy way to unlock them???

    Actually I have to double check that I removed the DVD autoplay...
    I think I should try to find out how to program it to disable autoplay then make it available again.
     

    kaybe

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    if you want to have the autoplay function, you have to deactivate it with a plugin and later to activate it again.
     

    greybox

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    I also have this problem: I disabled autostart in DVD and Music, but any a new cd/dvd is recognized only after I restart MP. The last advice was to do a clean install. I am waiting for the final version to do that. In the meantime I was wondering if somebody knows a quick fix?
     

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