Authoring MVI Titles with DVD SP

Hi,
We are an authoring facility and we've been successfully using DVDSP for several years. Today a client asked us if we could author an MVI DVD (the kind of DVD that plays also on CDs, as far as I understood) and I'm wondering if anyone knows if DVDSP can be used for that.
Any clues are helpful!
Thanks,
TM

Hi Everyone,
Going back to this topic: we've finished authoring the DVD + MVI application (a simple Flash projector) and we're running into trouble when building the DVD. After the build, the application get corrupted and doesnt launch anymore. It works fine on 10.5 but not on 10.4 and 10.3.
Any clues?
Thx, Thiago

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