External USB DVD player wont play DVD movies in VLC player.

My external USB DVD player wont play movies in VLC player on Linux Mint 20. My laptop is an Acer Aspire. I ran some commands and pasted them below. Would appreciate any ideas.

non@anon:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04f3:0125 Elan Microelectronics Corp. Touchscreen
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0411:01dc BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) Ultra-Slim Portable DVD Writer (DVSM-PC58U2V)
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0489:e04e Foxconn / Hon Hai
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2c17 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. HD WebCam
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

anon@anon:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 400M 0 part
sda2 8:2 0 300M 0 part
sda3 8:3 0 128M 0 part
sda4 8:4 0 451.1G 0 part
sda5 8:5 0 840M 0 part
sda6 8:6 0 13G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 111.8G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 960M 0 part /run/timeshift/backup
sdb2 8:18 0 19.1G 0 part /
sdb3 8:19 0 76.3G 0 part /home
sdb4 8:20 0 1.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

anon@anon:~$ dmesg | grep cd | less
468.997459] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 468.997463] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 4930.663177] usb 2-5: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[ 4930.812447] usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0411, idProduct=01dc, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 4931.877394] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray