This is just a wild guess, but could the decryption keys be stored in the DVD drive? Playing the disc with mplayer retrieves the keys (using libdvdread) and sets them in the drive. From that point, the disc is readable by all means. When you change the disc, the keys are not valid anymore.
As I said, this is a wild guess, I have no actual knowledge about these things. -- Remy
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