Problems in reading DVDs

I am helping a friend who has no access to fast internet and no experience with Mac to solve her problems with Macmini.
She has Mac Mini PPC.
She usually has some DVD with data copied and products picture given by clients and from the office, of course are just back up copies.
Her Mini cannot read these DVDs, we have tried with VLC nothing.
Even the DVD icon on desktop disappears and unable to eject it. We have to restart and keep mouse clicked, that is quite troublesome and we don't understand the way to resolve this eject issue.
Why those back up copies cannot be read ? Is due to the optical drive ?
Can Mac Mini read and burn any type of DVD's.
Hope you can help and solve her problems
We tried with quicktime but also unable to open.
Thanks for your help
Ciao

Yes the drive can read commercial DVD and CD. I found maybe a solution. If I use right click of the mouse or CTRL+click I can open the file inside the DVD with VLC, no problem. I don't understand why I cannot do it using VLC OPENDISK andDVD option or TS folder, doesn't work that way.
Why sometimes disk icon on the desktop is not found even if DVD is in or cannot eject pusign keyboard key or trashing it ?
Is possible to send a zipped application to my friend so she can open without problems, because of low connection or is the same as download ?
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* I've already added the user to the "optical" and "storage" groups. So there's no problems in relations to permissions.
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* My desktop environment is KDE 3.5.5...And I have changed the behaviour of the desktop icons such that DVD media, CD media, and USB devices will have an icon pop-up as soon as you plug them in.
* I have "hal" loaded in the DAEMONS of /etc/rc.conf
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* When I installed K3b I did: pacman -S k3b dvd+rw-tools
* All the DVD media is Verbatim DataLifePlus ones.
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I've burnt two DVD media (they're just video files from last year's Blender 2006 conference thing, so its legal stuff).
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When I run dmesg on the Arch boxes, the only relevant info I get is:
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
Now if I re-insert these DVD media onto an Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS box...The DVD+R works perfectly! While the DVD-R does not.
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[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.808000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
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[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.808000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.812000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.812000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
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[17179655.364000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
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[17179729.348000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
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