I have had exactly the same problem for ages (Debian unstable, breezy, dapper). The audio CD trick works here too.
Does your drive happen to be a Plextor DVD writer? Because I never had this problem with my old Pioneer DVD ROM. My current drive is a PX-716A with firmware version 1.09 (the latest). I can also confirm that the problem occurs with Video DVDs only. Data DVDs, or any other kind of medium I tried, work just fine. -- Video DVDs not recognised by Breezy desktop https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/27316 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
