DVD stuck in player, help!

How do you eject a dvd if its stuck in the drive? The eject button wont work. I hear it spinning
and keep trying eject and it just wont release it. Any tips?

4 things you can do...
first, being the easiest: press the eject button firmly and hold for 1-3 seconds if that fails, go to step 2.
2: on your desktop, you should see a disk in the upper right corner named (lets pretend its a movie disk of "finding nemo" it will show a disk, and in the text it will say 'findingnemo' or something , just look for the dvd logo on your desktop, right/secondary click it (either with 2 fingers or control+click). then a menu will come up giving u options... the 2nd one down should say 'eject' click that. if that still doesn't work...
step 3: restart your computer, WHILE HOLDING DOWN the trackpad/trackpad button (depending on model)
and as a last resort, just take it in, they will run some programs, and if that doesn't work, they should and probably will open up the computer to extract the drive itself get the dvd out, and replace the drive (if they find it to be defective.)
hope this helps

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          Device Name :           HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080M Media
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          Writes DVD :           Yes
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          Media is blank :           No
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          Media is overwritable :           No
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          Can Turn Owners Off :           Yes
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