Burned dvd's distorted when being played.

I am new to the Mac world. I recently downloaded Mac the Ripper and Bought Popcorn. I am able to copy my dvd's to my hard drive without a problem. I can also burn the TS file to my dvd's. However when i go to play it in the DVD player it is distorted and freezes. The sound seems to be there but it will not play long enought to hear. Popcorn says it is completed and there is no errors. I need some suggestions and help.
Thanks

Being a new purchase, this shouldn't be an issue, however, is your Popcorn at version 1.0.3?
After you use Mac the Ripper, can you use the Apple DVD player to view the movie? Any issue there?
Have you looked over the Popcorn discussion forum at http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?s=36c69af3b36aa68483464ad277784494&sho wforum=50

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