I just ran command inxi di and get:
raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$ inxi -d
Drives: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (15.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS72208 size: 80.0GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A
dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
raymond@RAB-P-6860FX:~$
So my guess it sees the DVD player but VLC player still wont play I get and error unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'
Any Suggestions please? Thanks.