2nd video doesn't play on SOME DVD players

So I've been burning DVDs of our film for months now with iDVD 5 and have had no problems with playback, including on an older Sony DVD player (~7-8 years old). I now added a trailer to our DVDs (3 menu items now: Movie, Scene selection, and Trailer) and the discs will play the movie fine, including from the scene selection menu, on the Sony. But it stalls and gives an error when trying to play the Trailer. However, the all the elements work fine on the Mac and in another, newer DVD player. Weird.
Is this just a matter of the unpredictability of older DVD players?

Is this just a matter of the unpredictability of older DVD players?
Probably.
http://dvd.kentidwell.com/?page_id=54
john b

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This is a question very familiar in iDVD forum. I use to answer like this.
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