My dvd player keeps spitting out my DVDs

My dvd player on my mac book pro keeps spitting out my dvds . any suggestions?

Hi
And What
• DVD Brand did You use
• DVD type did You use
• Video-Codec (or excatly in what format and from where AND HOW - did You get the material into iDVD)
• Free Space on Start-Up Hard Disk
• Version of Mac OS
• Version of Video editing program used
• Version of DVD
Just to give us something more to go by - than just that something is wrong. It just is not enough to evenstart guessing ;)
A willing - but without any chance to be of help - Yours Bengt W

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