Burned DVD-R won't play in domestic DVD player

Why a DVD-R i burn won't play in a common domestic DVD player, even the most recent and good quality ones ? Is there something else i should do before burning ?

How did you burn it? If you dragged the files to the dvd in finder and then hit burn it won't play in a dvd player, but if you used iDVD it should work.

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For what it's worth with all the traffic here about discs not playing, here's my experience. Hope it helps. Although the following is a wee bit ranty, apologies.
Having successfully authored many DVDs in Panther with iDVD 2, since completely upgrading (not migrating) to a new machine with freshly installed Tiger and iDVD 5.0.1 I cannot successfully burn DVDs from either iDVD or iDVD .imgs from Disc Utility that will play in anything but my trusty 3 year-old Pioneer 355 or Apple DVD player. This is using the same media (Verbatim) as I have always used.
DVD players take a while to read the disc, then show the main menu (even if the DVD is autoplay). On selecting an asset to play, the player freezes. In fact one Panasonic player I have crashes. I have to power it down and up to get the disc out.
On authoring the same assets with the same structure using the same Verbatim media in DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3 I have complete success.
This to me goes to show that my Superdrive is almost certainly not an issue.
Rather than troubleshoot iDVD further I have decided not to use it at all until I have iDVD 6. I cannot afford to waste more time and money on software (and possibly the way software talks to hardware) that plainly does not work fresh out of the box.
Why do I use iDVD when I have DVD SP? It's hassle-free, fast, and does no less and no more than I need. Until now.
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Sounds a lot like what I went through. Have you modified the theme (such as added a custom background image)? See my earlier post at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1689970#1689970 for a complete description of this bug.
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My panasonic dmr ex-77 plays all kinds of discs including the above. Having purchased from the ITunes store, making copies of the movies in both types of dvd, both are not recognised by my panasonic dvd player. I have tried others recorded on the panasonic and these work.
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They are DRM protected. You cannot burn itunes movies.
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http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/uk/terms.html

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Before my disk drive was replaced I could take a dvd, copy it and burn it to a disc (i.e., make a copy for myself), ad it would pla in my dvd player
Since then when I make a copy of something and burn it, it won;t play in ant DVD player. Will play onthe computer though
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When I burn a dvd using Idvd they will not play on standard dvd players.
Is this a problem with anyone else?
I noticed it was a problem in the early 2000-2003 but apparently something got fixed, because I couldn't find an incident where this problem continued to occur.
I am new to the Mac world and I don't always understand the acronymns used when I read responses. However, here is my problem.
Burning dvd's using Idvd:
1. the burn seems to run and function normally
2. when I insert the burned dvd into a dvd player one of the following things occur:
a) loading takes a very long time, then I get a message saying "wrong disc"
b) loading occurs fast, reads the file as a dvd, the dvd begins playing the music and showing the main menu screen, after accessing a menu option the dvd begins to play the slideshow with the music then after a minute or two, it freezes, and is no longer readable when attempting to reload it, the message is "wrong disc"
3. I've tried using dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd+r dual layer, and changing the burn speed to 8x, then to 4x and then to 2x. Nothing seems to matter.
4. I have noticed that in Idvd the dvd type is for an older version of dvd's such as single layer 4.2 gb and double layer 7.7 gb. I'm wondering whether the Idvd software on my MacMini is up to date, even though when I check for updates under the apple it comes back saying my system is up to date.
I'm using a MacMini running Mac OSX v 10.6.8 with processor 2.26ghz, Intel core 2 duo, memory 2gb 1067 mhz ddr3, and my dvd drive is a pioneer dvd-rw dvrts08, firmware q81f.
I really need help to fix the problem with the IDVD software or to know that I need to purchase another DVD maker software for my Mac. The product below says my Mac is running OS X v 10.7.2 but it isn't it is running v 10.6.8 as I stated.
URGENT!!!!

My macmini is under 2 years old. I reviewed your list of affects and I am going down the list to determine possible cause and effect.
I did try the PRAM process. The DVD still won't play on my DVD player but it did play on my son's Sony blue ray. I burned it at 2x burn rate after the PRAM process completed.
I can assume that's progress. The audio did however skip a couple of times while playing. That is new.
I will continue down the list using different type of blank dvd's etc.
Question: As I was reading through some other issues I'm learning that Mac/Apple is discontinuing IDVD, is that correct?
Are you aware of some other software to purchase that will create dvd's on the mac? If so, I may as well go that route rather than wasting more time using a defunct product. What is your opinion?

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