phiebie@... wrote:

> When I nowadays insert a DVD/CD into the player, the LED starts
> flashing and the disk spins up. And keeps spinning some 4 minutes, then
> at last stopping automatically. Very annoying as that spinning is done
> at maximum playerspeed with inherent noise. Audio, video, data, all the
> same.
> On the desktop meanwhile appeared an icon with the title-text of the
> disk. Clicking on it offers some actions, but not the most needed one
> "close".
> I disabled in control center services the media notifier daemon but to
> no avail, even after rebooting. The icon kept popping up.
> Where else is a possibility to switch off the autodetect-function?
> 
> Regards, Peter.

Can you play the DVD at all?

I am on Fujitsu C700 SFF and when I insert a dvd or CD it spinns to read the
meta - but it is rather short.

do you have the libraries installed?

look in the system logs or dmesg to see - might be something wrong with
player and/or dvd