Solved : Problem mounting DVD in Linux

I was trying to mount an old DVD created in windows in Linux. No matter what it would not mount. I found many suggestions online all of them involved typing tens of obscure linux commands in the terminal emulator and trying to decipher the results.

   
 For example I entered dmesg | cat  in the terminal emulator and then had to use a search engine for each line of the output to understand what it was about.The same happened after entering hwinfo --cdrom then  sudo lshw and other increasingly cryptic Linux terminal commands.

At the end after a long of time not finding a solution I thought the problem might be connected to the way  the DVD was created. Apparently the DVD was an UDF one and UDF was not properly supported by that specific Linux distribution.

After realising this, a solution that worked was quickly discovered : There is a package called udftools that contains tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives. The description at the package repository states:

This package contains a number of user-space tools related to creating filesystems in the UDF (Universal Disk Format), which is primarily used for DVDs, but sometimes also CD-ROMs and HDDs.

After installing it using sudo apt-get install udftools the DVD mounted without problem. Obviously this is not the best way to solve this problem but fortunately it worked for this specific case.