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I am trying to add my DVD drive as a video source. But the drive does not show up when I browse for it... I see c:\, d:\, home folder, network file system and a few more, but the DVD is missing. The DVD works, I can exit kodi and watch the DVD via VLC through windows. Windows 10, latest kodi. Appreciate all help!
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Just so I have a bit better understanding of what you are trying to achieve, why would you want to add the DVD drive as a Media Source?
Are you thinking this is the way to play a DVD in Kodi? It is not. Whatever skin you are using should have a menu item for "Play Disc". It will either a) automatically appear once Kodi detects a disk, or b) you need to go to the skin settings and activate the menu item. This is skin dependent.
This help?
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Thanks, yes, I want to make it easy for my wife to plop in a DVD and watch it, w/o needing to go to windows and VLC. I will look through my skin settings. But I am surprised to see c:\ and d:\ but not r:\...
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Which skin are you using. If I am familiar with the skin, I can point you to the settings, otherwise I will point you to the thread of the skin.
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I am using the default skin, estuary. And I think it works now. I did not find a setting within the skin to enable autoplay though. I switched to aeon nox and there was a setting, already enabled. Switched back to estuary. And went to windows to check autoplay for the drive - it was enabled. Changed the default program from windows media something or other to VLC and now it works... I have no idea what piece was the breakthrough! One thing thta complicated things is that my wife handed me DVDs that were actually bluerays... and I didn't notice, so that definitely added to the confusion!
Still I find it strange that I don't see r:\ when browsing. And I also came across screenshots that had a 'DISKS' item in the list which I do not see, I suspect that was an older version of Kodi perhaps.
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jjd-uk
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Is there an actual disk in the drive when you try and browse for it? as it will only appear when a disk is loaded.
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The 'autoplay' setting you are looking for in estuary can be found in player settings-video's-discs-play dvd automatically. Don't know what that does for bluray though since i do not own a drive.
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Thank you, I found the setting, and all is well. It was turned on. We don't have a blueray player either, that's why nothing happened when I put the blueray without noticing into the DVD player. Thank you for your help!!!
