Dvd player blues

Hi everyone, i'm not sure where to post this so sorry if this is the wrong place.
My mac's (ibook G4 late '04) dvd player sometimes just wont play some dvds, mostly this occurs with dvds with dvd rom features (eg. The Matrix), is there any way to get these dvds to work on my player???
Here's what happens:
1 insert the dvd
2. the player 'thinks' for about 5-10 seconds
3. it ejects the disk
any help would be appreciated.
regards,
Pete.
Message was edited by: Peter Miller

This sounds more like a readability problem, rather than something due to the content itself. In other words, your DVD drive is failing to read the media and consequently ejecting it. I started having this kind of behavior which got progressively worse until it wouldn't take any disk at all (CD or DVD). Fortunately, AppleCare came to the rescue and the unit was replaced. Nowadays it takes any DVD at all, provided it is for the appropiate region. The problem may be caused by dirt/dust/deposits on the lens mechanism; however, on the slot-loading drives used on the portables it is impossible to use any of the drive cleaning disks available cause they just won't fit or they will get stuck inside permanently
Perhaps you can have a friend/dealer/Apple Expert lend you an external drive to test this out and confirm it is a hardware issue.

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