I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. Today I ran across some DVDs in storage (commercial purchased movies not home videos) and wanted to add them to my Plex library. I put the first one in the DVD drive and it blinked awhile and did nothing. Tried a few more and the system would never mount it. I went through dmesg and syslog without seeing anything related. Opened the Disks app and it shows the drive but says "No Media". I tried several suggested fixes online related to persistent storage rules, libdvd-pkg and libdvdread8 but nothing helped
Then I thought I'd just open Handbrake and see if it could access the drive, but it won't open at all. I found errors in the logs like "unable to determine mimetype" and "no such file or directory". Finally I ran it under sudo and it opened. So apparently my user account isn't allowed to run the app, but all other files in /usr/bin are owned by root and same permissions and this is the first app I haven't been able to run other than system level commands without sudo.
Would appreciate suggestions on what to do next