Comment 33 for bug 10550

I own a video DVD with the exact same permissions as the one Shaya Potter's used when if filled this bug report: the video_ts directory does not have any "x" bits set, and all files are owned by user -1.

In Feisty, because of bug #112584, it auto-mounts as iso9660 instead of udf and totem plays it happily.
In Gutsy, as bug #112584 has been partially fixed, it auto-mounts as udf and only root can read the dvd.
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/112584)

Quick fix: i have put iso9660 before udf in fstab to always mount dvds as iso9660:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660,udf user,noauto,utf8 0 0
(the "utf8" option is a workaround to another long standing and very annoying bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/22623, but does not have any effect here.)

Totem now plays my DVD just fine. Obviously, this is not a good solution for everyone, but as i don't mind mounting my udf data DVDs as iso9660, it does not matter to me.

This bug as been here for a long time now, does anyone has a better solution?

@Pierre Renié : your suggestion would not work in some cases, like mine, because only root can read the files if the directory VIDEO_TS does not have the "x" permission set for anyone.