Burned DVD's don't work, or skip in DVD player

When I create a DVD on my G5 I burn onto a DVD-R from IDVD. Often, when I give copies of the DVD's to people they report that it eitehr pixelates occassionally, or freezes up at the same point and they can not continue to watch it. Any suggestions?

It sounds like the 'usual' burn error problem.
You can try a different brand of writable media or create a disk image of your project (it's under File>Create Disk Image) and use Apple's Disk Utility or Roxio's Toast Titanium 7 to burn the disk image to writable media at a lower speed (like 2x or 4x).
The problem is writing at higher speeds (or with marginal media) tends to increase the error rate of burned DVDs. Computer DVD players have a much higher error correction capability than most set-top DVD players (after all , you wouldn't want to loose computer data) and do a better job of playing writable discs.

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