MythTV/mythtv — comment on commit ede2706164115ae22d306a8de57bcae60fc69da5
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By jyavenard:

In VLC, when I got into playing an optical disk, the value preset is /dev/rdisk2
not "disk2"

So they may be doing the munging, but you can certainly add the real device name without having to worry about what crap myth will prepend

I'm not sure VLC 1.1.9 is the best example on what to do either :) how old is that stuff?