Playing DVDs on my Mac

I've had my MacBook Pro for a little over a year now, and I've just now noticed this problem.
I am trying to play a DVD, but every time I insert it, it thinks for a good minute or so and then spits the DVD back out. During the time it is in the disc drive I cannot view the files, nor does the disc icon pop up on the desktop.
I tried googling a solution to this, and the only thing that I can seem to find is to download a program called VLC, and I did this. Then when trying to setup the program I go to "File" --> "Open Disk", check the bubble for "DVD", and I am instructed to go to the corresponding drop down menu for "Device Name", however there are no options other than "No DVDs Found". Is it that for some reason my mac isn't detecting it's own disc drive somehow? I have no way to test this because other than DVDs I have no other discs that.
Same thing happens with music CDs.... It seems that for some reason my disc drive isn't functioning. Is there a driver or something I can install? I really would like to avoid going into the Apple store or calling tech support...

Yeah I have, I just got back home from work and tried again however it's still not working. I googled the problem a little more and I found a lot of people are having similar problems and are saying that it's everything from "a problem with a recent update" to "I dropped it". I'm really hoping it's due to an update so that it could just get fixed in a future update. But I feel like if that was the problem, everyone would have it, not just a handful of people on the internet.

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File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 2.2 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
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Video Encoder
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          Height: 480
          Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)
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          Padding: None
          Frame rate: 29.97
          Frame Controls On:
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                    Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
                    Adaptive Details: On
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                    Detail Level: 0
                    Field Output: Progressive
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          Field dominance: Progressive
          Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
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