DVD won't play in Quicktime

I have a training DVD from Vortex, about my Sony HVR-Z7, and it plays very well on any DVD-player, but when I try and play it on my Mac, I get the following message: *OSStatus failure* -1409. Any idea what goes wrong here? Dragging the DVD-icon to Quick-time does not help either: it won't start playing.

Thanks for the reply! I'm an newbie, coming from PC. Is there a standard application in Leopard that plays DVD's or do I have to download something from the web?
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