Not able to read DVD in the optical drive, but able to read CD

So lately, my MBP's optical drive have been acting up weirdly when I put in a DVD disk. It would suck it in, and I would hear the sound that it tries to put the read head on the disk but failing. After a while it just spit the disk out. This would only happen if I put in a DVD disk, when I put in a music CD, it works and load the music into iTunes and everything.
Does anyone know what's wrong?

THis almost invariably means your drive needs cleaning or that you are using bad media xcc. DVD's are harder to "read" and "write" than CD's and generally show "dirty lens" problems well before issues arise with CDs.
Get a DVD cleaning disc and run it through a few times.
Cheers
Rod

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