A DVD-R when placed in the optical drive just not 'seen' by the OS

[Kenyon Karl]

I just received two closely related DVD-R produced by Neff Video Productions of 21 E. Hebble Ave., Fairborn OH 45324-5012, phone [phone], fax [phone], E-mail <email address hidden>, identivied as order # NO26 and # NO59, with titles Electric Railways of Chicago Part 1 & Part 2. Both videos are copyright 2000 by Steve Neff.

When the Part 1 video (# NO26) is placed into the optical drive of my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop, My Ubuntu 9.10 system properly identifies the DVD as a movie video and properly offers to start the Totem Movie Player 2.28.2 using GStreamer 0.10.25. But when I put the Part II video (# NO59) into the optical drive, Ubuntu appears to be totally unaware that I have done so.

Since this is a dual boot machine, I restarted the machine under Windows XP with the Part II video (# NO59) still in the optical drive. Windows XP had no difficulty in identifying the Part II disk as a Movie, and likewise had no difficulty playing the video with its Windows Media Player software.

Note that I draw software from the third party source: Medibuntu - Ubuntu 9.10 "karmic koala".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 2f46bfa49172683ab4caae9e727080e9
CheckboxSystem: b1cca5f799a911bbb44e7180c2fd235d
Date: Sun Dec 6 17:18:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1570): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1570): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1671): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1687): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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