DVD ejects w/o /starting

DVD player won't play a disk.  I tried several different DVD's, they all slide in appropriately, I hear a little spin and hum, start, stop, and after about 20 seconds they all just pop out.  This just started happening, it used to play them.  I did try restarting (PC habbits die hard) but this of course did not help.  Can you?

Have you tried CDs also? What type of data is on the DVDs? Music, movies, photos, etc?

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