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dcoke22 wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:57 am 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.

drxenos wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm If you're on Windows, this guy has an ejector app in his awesome collection of tools.
https://www.uwe-sieber.de/

dellsam34 wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 10:32 am

drxenos wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm 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 wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:51 am We would still like a load button added to the makeMKV GUI.

drxenos wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:27 pm 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 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:44 am

drxenos wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:27 pm 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.

Woodstock wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:43 pm 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 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:53 pm

Woodstock wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:43 pm 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 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:21 pm +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 wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 10:03 am 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.