Dvd app not playing

I insert a DVD into the player, DVD is invoked, and all I get is a blank screen--no activity. If I then press "ESC", I get the DVD app status bar at the top and the full-screen DVD controls at the bottom. From there it is as it used to be. This applies to DVD files on hard-drive.
The expected behavior is: insert disk, movie starts (possibly with a "do you want to start at the beginning?" message).
I can use the "ESC" work-around, but don't know what's happened to make this so.

i've been using /dev/sr0 for everything recently.  my gui apps picked up the change w/o me noticing and my CLI apps work fine with /dev/sr0 as before.  not sure when it happened or why.  your mplayer choppiness may be unrelated b/c i think /dev/sr0 is standard now and should always work.

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