Playing DVD

[GorillaCoder]

How do I run x11docker so that kodi can either:

• play dvds in the drive manually.
• automatically play dvds when I close the dvd drawer.

[ehough]

Though I haven't tested this myself, I would imagine that it would simply be a matter of exposing your DVD drive to your Kodi container. e.g. something like this:

$ /usr/local/bin/x11docker --share /dev/dvd:ro ... erichough/kodi

Of course, replace /dev/dvd with whatever device your host system uses for its DVD drive. Kodi should be able to access the device and everything should work as expected. Give that a try?

[GorillaCoder]

Thanks much, I'm still a docker/x11docker noob. Let me try it, and I'll let you know how it goes. Perhaps a worthwhile addition to the doc?

[ehough]

Checking in. Did you have any luck?

[GorillaCoder]

Thanks for reaching out. I'm fighting it. I'd love to get kodi running in docker (first step in dockerizing my whole "house server", but not much luck.

Minor issue: with --share /dev/dvd:ro x11docker blows chow complaining docker: bad mode specified: ro. Replacing it with just --share /dev/dvd at least lets docker/x11/kodi run.

The real issue is that when running with the following command line: /usr/bin/x11docker --share /dev/dvd --hostdbus --gpu --home=$HOME/kodi -- -v /media/giuliano/45035146-fa0d-4b8a-95d7-4c6d06477427 -- erichough/kodi, the host /dev/dvd is not showing up in the container. From inside kodi I go to Setting/File manager/Add source/Browse/Root filesystem, and then dive down into /dev. All I see is: dri fd mqueue pts shm.

At this point I'm trying to just become conversant with x11docker, and figuring out why the --share isn't working. Unfortunately, trying to merely have it bring up kde-plasma fails:x11docker --desktop --gpu --init=systemd x11docker/kde-plasma squawking: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server. If I could at least get x11docker to bring up a simple terminal I'd have half a chance at figuring out what's going on. I could look at dmesg, try sharing other files/folders/devices and see if the are shared in the container, etc.

At some point I'll just need to bail and install kodi on the host system. I've just started a new gig, and have a whole new code base to get up to speed on.

Any how, thanks again for checking in!

[GorillaCoder]

Ah, BTW, x11docker seems to think it is sharing /dev/dvd and /dev/sr0:

x11docker note: Option --share: Shared file is a symbolic link. Sharing target, too.
Symlink: /dev/dvd
Target: /dev/sr0

On the off chance the symlink was the issue, I also tried --share=/dev/sr0 with no luck there either.

[mviereck]

Basic thought: Maybe kodi cannot handle the device file directly but needs the dvd to be mounted. Share the mount point.
Some systems automatically mount dvds in /media. Maybe --share /media works.

If I could at least get x11docker to bring up a simple terminal I'd have half a chance at figuring out what's going on.

You can get a terminal with:

x11docker --interactive --no-entrypoint --share /dev/dvd -- erichough/kodi bash

the host /dev/dvd is not showing up in the container.

Just checked, /dev/dvd and /dev/sr0 do appear here.

-v /media/giuliano/45035146-fa0d-4b8a-95d7-4c6d06477427

This looks suspicious. This does not share a host volume but creates one in Docker. Is this intended?

[GorillaCoder]

Thanks.

I need to figure out how to get to the device, if I'm to get access to the DVD. Ideally to dbus too, so I can get it to auto load. Thanks for clueing me in about how to run bash. Hopefully I'll have time to play with it this week.

The -v was me playing around, based on something I saw in either the x11docker or docker-kodi docs, I've forgotten which. Not really directly related to this. Basically, it's where my ripped media is.

Thanks again, you've been very helpful. I appreciate it.

[mviereck]

Some first progress!

I've inserted an audio CD in my computer. Opening it showed cdda://sr0/ in the file browser.
Here I found that the CD is sort of mounted in /run/user/1000/gvfs/cdda:host=sr0.

Docker fails to share this. Ideally we should share /run/user/1000/gvfs, but this fails with:

docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/run/user/1000/gvfs': mkdir /run/user/1000/gvfs: file exists. 

Sharing /run/user/1000 (same as XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) works, but exposes some sensitive data from host. So this is not a good solution.

This works so far:

x11docker --pulseaudio --share $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR -- erichough/kodi

In kodi, browse to /run/user/1000/gvfs/cdda:host=sr0. You see an empty folder. Click "Add", and the audio files appear.