DVD stuck in drive and wont eject

There was a thread I read earlier with a similar problem only their solution was of no avail to me. Any other possible solutions. My dvd drive worked fine but now is all of a sudden not wanting to eject the dvd.
I tried holding the button on the track pad.
I tried holding down the mouse button.
What happens is that the DVD will try to eject but wont come out of the drive and ends up going back in on its own.

As well, I would also note that many disc drives have tiny hole in them that if you stick a pin or bent paperclip in, will manually open the drive.
Push with some force, but don't overdo it since it doesn't take much to manually eject the tray. If they tray opens you should then be able to open drive slowly to get the disc out.
You may want to try this while the machine is off as well so that no software gets confused about what is going on and tries to open/close the drive.

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