VLC prob..

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#1

After finishing playback I can’t unmount or eject the dvd. I get the message “An application is preventing the volume ‘XXXXXX_XXX’ from being unmounted.” This doesn’t happen when I use other apps like Totem.

The only way I can unmount or eject the DVD is to restart the PC altogether.

I use VLC as my preferred app for music & video files and would also like to use it for DVD’s as well.

Please let me know if I need to supply further info…

Thanks in advance…

EDIT: I’ve also gone through the preferences in VLC, but nothing seems to help.

#2

are you sure did you quit the player before ejecting it

#3

You can also eject the medium from within the player,it has an eject option IIRC

Andy

#4

Sometimes opening a terminal and typing ‘eject’ works.

Also, sometimes on one’s desktop (I’m running kde-3.5.10) and clicking on “My Computer” and then right clicking on the CD drive, one can select “eject”. … That works for me on KDE-3.5.10, but it did not function on kde4 last I tested KDE4, but that was some time back.

#5

Thanks for your help guys,.

Yes, I did hit quit to exit programme, I couldn’t see any eject button on the VLC GUI, and finally I got this message when I typed ‘eject’ into terminal…

linux-d58s:/home/baldrick/Desktop # eject
umount: /media/XXXXX_XXXX: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
eject: unmount of `/dev/sr0’ failed

I even uninstalled, and re-installed an new copy of VLC which made no difference @ all.

Any further help would be greatly appreciated…

#6

Did you close vlc before typing ‘eject’ ?

#7

Yes, I did. No joy.

#8

Kiwi Baldrick adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to write:

>
> oldcpu;1950665 Wrote:
>> Did you close vlc before typing ‘eject’ ?
>
> Yes, I did. No joy.
>
>

Use ksysguard ( Ctrl+Esc ) to see if there are any bits of vlc left
running or zombied, if so see if they can be killed.

\or you could open a terminal and use top to do the same thing, maybe
something is still there stopping the eject command.

HTH

Mark

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