Burned DVD-DVD player says "File Unsupported" ..newbie needs help

I have not had my Mac long and after taking my daughter's dance recital off my Flip onto my Mac, I burned it to a DVD to play in the DVD player and it said "File unsupported". What am I doing wrong?? Thank you for reading.

Spider30318 wrote:
I burned it to a DVD to play in the DVD player and it said "File unsupported".
How? Did you use iDVD (Applications->iDVD)
If iDVD cannot read the Flip format, then convert it to MOV (Quicktime) with: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

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