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Have you done the cleaning thing and  trying other types of disk thing?
Welcome to the forum.

Perhaps a few details may help: what kind of disk are you talking about? A produced CD/DVD with a movie or TV program or music or computer programs on it? A CD/DVD that was burned in another computer with files on it? A blank (re-)writable CD/DVD that you want to save files to?

One complication is DVD region coding which prevents everyone from playing a DVD created for one region to be played in a DVD player set for another. I'm not sure what would happen in that case, so it may very well simply eject such incompatible disks (and not display the reason on the screen--someone else will have to say).

papa75 wrote:

I have tried regular cds and dvds and still ejects them.

You might try this: restart your MacBook with an OS X DVD in the drive, holding down the "C" key during boot up (this should force your MacBook to try to boot using the DVD as the boot volume). This should eliminate the possibility that there is some software problem preventing you from reading the disks. If this works, then try the "Archive and Install" option to replace the current system folder (and try to recall what you may have installed which could have futzed up the disk player driver).

If you cannot do this then I would have to agree with Robert: the drive itself is bad (but not so bad that the automatic eject still works) and will have to be replaced. Sorry.