Slot Loading Optical Drive Move the Eject button...

[nekrosoft13]

with a slot loading drive, has anyone ever soldered on some wires to move the eject button from the front to different location of the case?

I have the Silverstone ML06 case
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=457

it supports slot loading optical drive, but there is no eject button.

 

[WiSK]

Sure it can be done, but why aren't you able to just right click drive D and choose Eject from the menu?

 

[nekrosoft13]

Sure it can be done, but why aren't you able to just right click drive D and choose Eject from the menu?

main program that runs on this HTPC is XBMC, would be a bit inconvenient having to minimize XBMC every time I want to eject a DVD.

 

[WiSK]

main program that runs on this HTPC is XBMC, would be a bit inconvenient having to minimize XBMC every time I want to eject a DVD.

Googled "XBMC eject"

I was also missing an Eject DVD menu item, so I just added it myself. On my Mac Mini I use the MediaStream skin, so I editted /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/MediaStream/720p/Home.xml and added a new menu item by adding the following lines beneath the 'DVD button' menu item (line 1434):

 <item id="11">
 <description>Eject</description>
 <label>Eject</label>
 <label2>Eject the DVD</label2>
 <visible>System.HasMediadvd + !Skin.HasSetting(HideDVD)</visible>
 <onclick>XBMC.EjectTray()</onclick>
 </item>

Now, when a DVD is inserted a menu option will show to eject the DVD. Strange though that this isn't in there by default?

 

[vipz]

This might help: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=47895

 

[nekrosoft13]

thanks! will try that

 

[AFD]

If nothing else, maybe try a Desktop gadget for quickly ejecting the disc?

Will still have to minimize XBMC, and must be using Win-7..

http://win7gadgets.com/tools-utillities/drive_buddy.html

 

[EdZ]

If you have a keyboard attached (or a remote control) you can always just set up a shortcut to eject the drive (create icon for disc eject on the desktop, right click it, and assign it a keyboard shortcut)..