Trouble with burned DVDs

Hi, my iBook has stopped reading burned DVDs or CDs. Also, it does not recognize blank discs to burn new material onto them. It plays commercially bought DVDs and CDs just fine, but when a burned or blank disc is inserted (even ones that it created), it spins it around a few times then ejects it. The discs I've been using do play on other computers, just not mine.
What could be the problem, and how could I fix it? Would you suggest finding an external drive, or doing internal work? In every other way, this is still my perfect computer, and I would love to keep using it to make DVDs.

Hi,
It does sound like the Optical drive Lens is on its way out, I would suggest going with a external DVD burner, as it will be much faster and a whole lot cheaper then getting the internal replaced.

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To give you more details on what I am trying to do; I am trying to burn in Mac & PC format. I am mainly trying to back up all my assorted college files (I am a college student), these files are lecture notes in Word with embedded audio recordings, standard Word documents such as essays, etc., spreadsheets, PDF documents, etc. The files I am attempting to burn should not be larger than 4.7 gb and Roxio has not given me a warning that it would be.
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He made his movie in iMovie; it's 63 minutes long, and he got it into iDVD and made menus and such. When he tried to burn it, he ran into issues, though. Selecting any of the encryption options (even Pro, which is supposed to be able to handle movies that long) led to an error message when burning. After trying to prepare the menus, the message was that encoding the menus did not work (no specifics or anything). Any guesses as to why this is happening? Or can anyone recommend another program (preferably free) that would be capable of burning a movie of this length?
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