Cannot play DVD or write to DVD disk

[LaToune]

I am having problems to get my "CD/DVDW TS-H552B" to read dvd (normal movies) or write files to a disk "DVD+RW" type. I comfirm TS-H552B hardware has DVD RW capabilities.

Looking at the output below I see in "capabilities" no mention of dvd+rw or dvd-rw or dvd-w. I suspect this is the reason why it is not reading (detecting when I introduce the disk in the drive) dvd+rw disk when I insert it in the drive and where it does for audio or cd-w.

However, it also does not read normal video dvd when introducing it in the drive.

How can I get the drive to read dvd movies?
How can I add to capabilities: dvd-w or dvd-rw or dvd+rw or all to the cdrom1?

so it looks like: "capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-rw"

sudo lshw -C disk
...
*-cdrom:1
description: DVD writer
product: CD/DVDW TS-H552B
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/cdrw1
logical name: /dev/dvd1
logical name: /dev/dvdrw1
logical name: /dev/scd1
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: TS04
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

etc/fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=1948d24d-a767-490d-9d69-e513ef76c0ad / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=d19b101d-8f99-4e9f-b78a-07fab9bdd5c1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/hemona/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=hemona 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/OneTouch4 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

[Nick Booker (nmbooker)]

dvd+rw and dvd-rw are distinct standards, so it's likely that your drive simply cannot read them. Marked invalid for now, if you disagree please set back to New.

[Nick Booker (nmbooker)]

On reading DVDs, are the DVDs regionalised? You might need to change the region on the drive.