New Feature Request

[drxenos]

If you're on Windows, this guy has an ejector app in his awesome collection of tools.
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/

[dellsam34]

On a Mac, if you have the Eject menu item in the menu bar, you can open & close optical drives.

I presume (though I don't know) there's some equivalent thing in Windows.

Nope, in Windows it serves only one function, Eject.

[dellsam34]

If you're on Windows, this guy has an ejector app in his awesome collection of tools.
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/

Unfortunately that app is too old, It doesn't run on Win 11, When I try to install it a window popup quickly and disappears.

[dellsam34]

Just to be clear, I can always close the tray from the drive icon as pictured:
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[drxenos]

If you're on Windows, this guy has an ejector app in his awesome collection of tools.
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/

Unfortunately that app is too old, It doesn't run on Win 11, When I try to install it a window popup quickly and disappears.

I ran it just fine. And I believe my own software uses the same API it does, and it also works fine on Windows 11.

Just ran it again to be sure:
EjectMedia V3.2.1 (x64) - ejects a media from a drive
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de
Ejecting media from E: (PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XS07U USB Device)
Allowing eject... OK
Locking volume... OK
Dismounting volume... OK
Ejecting media... OK
success

LoadMedia V1.6 (x64) - loads a media into a drive or brings a volume online
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de
Loading media into E:\ (PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XS07U USB Device)... OK
success



You may have a UAC or permissions issue, or if you're expecting some sort of GUI to appear, these are command line tools.

Just for comparison's sake, this is what my own, private tool looks like:

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Nothing fancy, but it does the job.

[dellsam34]

We would still like a load button added to the makeMKV GUI.

[drxenos]

We would still like a load button added to the makeMKV GUI.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but a "load" button to do what, exactly? MakeMKV will automatically update when a disc is inserted in a drive.

[dellsam34]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but a "load" button to do what, exactly? MakeMKV will automatically update when a disc is inserted in a drive.

To do what we have been discussing in this thread.

[drxenos]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but a "load" button to do what, exactly? MakeMKV will automatically update when a disc is inserted in a drive.

To do what we have been discussing in this thread.

Still not needed as discussed in this thread.

[Woodstock]

Re-reading this topic, I can point to a lot of external drives where the button would be useless. A famous example is any laptop drive in an external drive case. The eject button releases the tray, but it must be physically pulled out, then pushed back in, since the tray isn't motorized in/out like a full-size (i.e., non-laptop) drive (usually) is.

How would you have MakeMKV detect whether of not the drive has such a feature? Would you put the button up, even if it can't work?

[drxenos]

Re-reading this topic, I can point to a lot of external drives where the button would be useless. A famous example is any laptop drive in an external drive case. The eject button releases the tray, but it must be physically pulled out, then pushed back in, since the tray isn't motorized in/out like a full-size (i.e., non-laptop) drive (usually) is.

How would you have MakeMKV detect whether of not the drive has such a feature? Would you put the button up, even if it can't work?

I don't think you can. As you said, these drives are just spring-loaded and have to mechanism to close themselves. Plus, there is no way to pragmatically determine the current state of the door (which is why I just use to separate buttons on my tool for drives that can close themselves).

[drxenos]

Re-reading this topic, I can point to a lot of external drives where the button would be useless. A famous example is any laptop drive in an external drive case. The eject button releases the tray, but it must be physically pulled out, then pushed back in, since the tray isn't motorized in/out like a full-size (i.e., non-laptop) drive (usually) is.

How would you have MakeMKV detect whether of not the drive has such a feature? Would you put the button up, even if it can't work?

I don't think you can. As you said, these drives are just spring-loaded and have no mechanism to close themselves. Plus, there is no way to pragmatically determine the current state of the door (which is why I just use to separate buttons on my tool for drives that can close themselves).

[flojo]

+1 for adding this feature to the GUI.

If I use a GUI I prefer software close because the physical button isn't easily accessible and sometimes forcing the tray closed can cause the disc to jump/rattle in the tray.

[dellsam34]

+1 for adding this feature to the GUI.

If I use a GUI I prefer software close because the physical button isn't easily accessible and sometimes forcing the tray closed can cause the disc to jump/rattle in the tray.

Bingo, finally a person with common sense.

I'll remind everyone who is too lazy to go back and read my posts, I present to you post #5, as you can see I was clearly talking about drives with a motorized tray:

I'll give you two reasons, 1- If the drive is connected externally to the computer and just sitting on the desk it's hard to push the close/load button or the tray, it will slide the entire drive backward, So closing the tray from the program makes it much more convenient and safe, 2- Some computers sitting on the floor level are too low to bend down and press the load button when the tray is open, in this case you can push the tray but some people prefer to use the button.

[Coopervid]

Man- you have to manually put in the disc anyway. What's wrong with pushing that button? I'm quite sure Mike will not consider this.