DVD player rejects most DVDs.

I have a Mac mini with OS X version 10.6.8. I insert a DVD & after a while it gets ejected. It's been doing this for a while now.

I've seen this happen to Macs upgraded to 10.8 or later and certain commercial DVDs. Rebooting the same Mac in 10.6 does not fix the issue. Yet another Mac running 10.7 can load the DVDs.
If you haven't replaced the PRAM battery in over 4 years, that could also cause a problem.
Self published DVDs can also be a problem*:
http://www.macmaps.com/cdrfailure.html

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