I have a brand new Plextor PX-740A here, attached via a USB enclosure, and it does not seem to have this problem. It has never had an audio CD in it, and the first time I inserted a video DVD, totem opened correctly.
-- Plextor DVD-RW does not detect DVDs properly until an audio CD is inserted https://launchpad.net/bugs/27316 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
