Burned Apple DVDs don't launch anymore

Hello,
I'm french and working on a PowerPC G4 2x1Ghz under 10.4.11.
I'm burning archives since 5 years and bought especially apple DVDs to be sure of quality (seems to have been a mistake !). Most of them don't launch anymore when i put them in th computer. Some come up on the desk but impossible to open the Stuff-it files !
CDs and other DVDs are working fine.
What is the problem? Is it the quality of the apple DVDs? Can I recover these archives in some other way ?
Thanks for the help…

I see you are using the original DVD drive that came with the computer. Many users of the 104 generation drives are finding these drives are starting to fail and are switching to newer drives like the Pioneer 112 and 115 drives. DVDs are pretty demanding on a drive's ability. My old 104 drive refused to read DVDs and some CDs. I bought a new 112 and it does everything with no problem. At least in the US replacement drives are very inexpensive ($30) so I would suggest you try that.
It could also be something like dirt in the drive, but the cleaning disks cost $10+ which is a good percentage of a new drive!
If you can try your DVDs in a computer with a new drive and it will read them you will know that it is your drive.
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