Dual DVD's not mounting in 10.3.9

I have read countless posts in which for various reasons DVD's don't mount. There is a special case where older DVD's do mount, but newer ones (dual layer format, favored by Hollywood) do not. That is my case. People are invaribly advised to invest in a new optical drive.
I was suspicious, and decided to try restarting my older eMac in 9.2. Of course it's the same drive, just being driven by different software. All DVD's mount and play fine in 9.2.
Now, I know that not everybody has the option these days of booting up in 9.2. But at least I can scientifically state that the problem has to be software, not hardware.

Welcome to the discussions.
Maybe I can give you some information on your problem.
Many of the newer Optical Drives are in fact crippled by the Firmware. This is done because of the restrictions placed on many computers by the manufactures for copyright reasons.
Older Operating Systems were not affected by these firmware restrictions, not until the advent of all of the DVD copying, were these firmware restrictions added, to avoid Lawsuits.
DUAL LAYER technolgy can be read and copied by many of the newer Optical Drives. But as you have correctly figured out the restrictions are implamented by FIRMWARE that cripple many of these functions.
Older Commercial DVD's can be read and copied with NO problems, but as time went by the Motion Picture Industry ADDED more and more encryption and security to there DVD's to hinder the ability to copy there product.
There are of course many of the Newer Optical Drives that are known as Region Free that will allow many of the imposed restrictions to be bypassed.
There are a couple of different options, one is to use a different Player, VLC
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738
This option only works on some DVD's
The other option is for you to Rip the DVD and re-copy it and remove all the security and encrytions, this allow it to play.
http://www.macweaver.com/dvdinfo/
Cheers Don

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