Any way to mount a DVD-ROM to access from VLC or other program?

[astroashton]

So I've been searching the topics and apps and needed to see if there's a way to mount and read the integrated DVD-ROM in my server (Dell r815). My laptop doesn't have one and I would like to watch some DVDs that are Region 0, but PAL format. Any way to do this or even to just rip them to MP4 or MKV using unRaid? Thanks for the help!

[SimonF]

4 hours ago, astroashton said:

So I've been searching the topics and apps and needed to see if there's a way to mount and read the integrated DVD-ROM in my server (Dell r815). My laptop doesn't have one and I would like to watch some DVDs that are Region 0, but PAL format. Any way to do this or even to just rip them to MP4 or MKV using unRaid? Thanks for the help!

I rip my DVDs/Blurays/4k Blurays for use in Plex using the Makemkv docker container.

 

[astroashton]

Thank you for the advice, however it just gives me a "The program can't find any useable optical drives" error message. Any suggestions? 

[SimonF]

Edit the docker, and change to advance with the slider button top right.

 

in the extras field you need to set the devices.

 

 

to find the sg name run

 

root@unraid:~# lsscsi -g | grep /dev/sr
[6:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  ASUS     BW-16D1HT        3.01  /dev/sr0   /dev/sg5 
root@unraid:~# 

I have two drives but the USB one is not connected the sr1 so for my asus drive I would need to set   --device=/dev/sg5 --device=/dev/sr0  

 

You need to have both.

[astroashton]

I'll give it a shot. I tried simply mounting /dev/sr0 to a folder, but it didn't like me doing that. So I just copied the files from the DVD to a flash drive. All of them were corrupted for some reason. I'll let you know if your advice works in my situation. Thanks again.

 

 

[astroashton]

Sadly when I went and added the devices manually, it still says it can't find them in both MakeMKV and binhex-MakeMKV. 

 

 

[SimonF]

15 minutes ago, astroashton said:

Sadly when I went and added the devices manually, it still says it can't find them in both MakeMKV and binhex-MakeMKV. 

 

 

Did you try the extra parms?

 

[astroashton]

That's what I did wrong. The instructions said to "add" the devices, so I was literally adding them as new entries. But, fixing that problem, I still get the same message. 

[SimonF]

can you provide lsscsi -g 

 

root@computenode:/mnt/testpool# lsscsi -g
[0:0:0:0]    disk    Generic  MassStorageClass 1536  /dev/sda   /dev/sg0 
[0:0:0:1]    disk    Generic  MassStorageClass 1536  /dev/sdb   /dev/sg1 
[1:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sdc   /dev/sg2 
[2:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sdd   /dev/sg3 
[3:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sde   /dev/sg4 
[4:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sdf   /dev/sg5 
[5:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sdg   /dev/sg6 
[6:0:0:0]    disk    SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00  /dev/sdh   /dev/sg7 
[11:0:0:0]   disk    ATA      ST96812AS        3.14  /dev/sdi   /dev/sg8 
[N:0:1:1]    disk    CT500P2SSD8__1                             /dev/nvme0n1  -    

 

[astroashton]

[SimonF]

30 minutes ago, astroashton said:

 

You may need to change the permission of the /dev/sr0 and sg0? Not sure how you are running it

 

chmod 777 /dev/sr0 and /dev/sg0

Edited December 28, 2022 by SimonF

[astroashton]

lol don't hate me, but that also did not work. 

[astroashton]

I also just noticed that the ROM hasn't been mounted anywhere. There's no /media at the root. This is all that shows up in the root folder, then everything that shows up in /dev.

[SimonF]

3 minutes ago, astroashton said:

I also just noticed that the ROM hasn't been mounted anywhere. There's no /media at the root. This is all that shows up in the root folder, then everything that shows up in /dev.

can you do lsscsi -g on the unraid server not the ubuntu system?

[astroashton]

I managed to mount /dev/sr0 to a new folder and I'm in the process of copying that folder over to where I store my normal videos. So here's to hoping. 

[astroashton]

Just now, SimonF said:

can you do lsscsi -g on the unraid server not the ubuntu system?

That one is the Unraid shell. 

[astroashton]

just waiting for now, but the last time i tried this the files were major corrupted. so fingers crossed. 

[SimonF]

Just now, astroashton said:

just waiting for now, but the last time i tried this the files were major corrupted. so fingers crossed. 

so you need sr0 and sg3 in the docker config.

[astroashton]

Me realizing I was typing sg0:

[astroashton]

And that was the entire issue. My own stupidity. Thank you so much for going through everything with me. I have no other way to watch DVDs and my servers aren't configured to handle much more than hosting and storage. So this is a life saver. Thank you again. 

[SimonF]

9 minutes ago, astroashton said:

And that was the entire issue. My own stupidity. Thank you so much for going through everything with me. I have no other way to watch DVDs and my servers aren't configured to handle much more than hosting and storage. So this is a life saver. Thank you again. 

No worries happy to help