MythMediaMonitor is a class in libmyth/mythmediamonitor.cpp which has a simple task - to maintain a list of mounted removable media. It currenly has a simple thread that loops every half second, checks for new mounted media, and polls the status (e.g. tray open, audio CD mounted, has data disk) of that device/media. See also * [http://www.cuymedia.net/doxygen-dev-docs/html/classMediaMonitor.html API reference].