DVD Player do not play DVD[VOB] files when on a network storage

Hi, since installing ML [10.8] [clean install] DVD Player return an error "The media type is not supported" msg when I try to play a movie stored on a readynas NV+ network storage. The RN is accessible in finder and all movies are there, there is no username & password required to access the storage which is on public. DVDplayer is set to accept incoming files through the firewall. The file was playing normally before when the mac was on Lion [10.7] with same configuration. If I copy the file to the computer HDD, no problem. I am computer literate but not an expert. Any tip is welcome, thank you.

I have exactly the same issue on my mid 2011 MacMini which I recently upgraded to ML. I have connected an external DVD drive to check whether the country code had to be changed to overcome it. The Apple DVD-Player played the DVD fine, I noticed from the "DVD information" menu that the country code had it fact changed (4 changes left). However the next time I tried to play a file from my NAS (External HDD connected to TC) the Apple DVD-Player showed the same error message "The media type is not supported". My network setting are unchanged vs. before when I was able to play such VOB files from the NAS, my end 2006 iMac running on Lion does also play those files. What's wrong here?

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