Burning DL iDVD project -Problems!

Hi All, could do with some advice here!
I have used iMovie since the get-go, and all later versions and iDVD!
Have happily done many projects but this latest DVD project (a friends wedding) has been the biggest to date.
Over 140Gb of raw footage and photos of a big wedding.
Months of editing and the job is finished.
All is well.
It took over 7.5hrs of final rendering on my intel and I ended up with a 7.41Gb final burn (to a dual-layer disk!)
I rendered and burnt in one go as advised by Apple AND ALSO separately after rendering a disk image!
Both will play to a point on my Sony surround TV system player but surprisingly not at all with my cheap testing TV player (which usualy PLAYS everything!)
ALL plays OK via the Macs DVD s/w player so I know the burn and image file is OK too.
I have burnt this via iDVD and also via Toast 8.1 and now also via Disk Utilities 'burn image' feature but get the same results!.... most will play but further into the DVD it won't (assuming this is where the data is on the 2nd layer!..... by the way i also have some DATA---pics/screensaver etc--- on the disk so there is NOT just an audio/video folder)
I have now burnt this 4 times and get the same results. I am using Datawrite 8.5Gb DVD_R DL disks...... is the disk the problem?
I have the Internal matshita DL burner and also a Freecom Firewire DL burner, (tried both!) and plenty of space!
I have made dozens of DVDs on SL disks with no problem!
I know what I m doing with the Apps and the Mac it just doesn't seem to burn correctly to a DVD?

Sounds like you are doing things correctly except for your choice of medias maybe. May be a media issue (not sure) but it's worth trying out. Try Verbatim or Maxell instead (just a suggestion).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302925

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A. I don't use the *Share/Export to iDVD* function in iMovie. iMovie rendering can harm
the photos in a movie.
I do: close iMovie, Open iDVD and import the movie project here (icon with a Star on it)
or just drop the icon into iDVD.
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I do: In a photo editing program eg PhotoShop or Elements: Apply *Gausian blurr*.
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Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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hi,
im using imovie 06hd and idvd 06 with the latest up dates.
im trying to put a video film together of my little cousins christening.
everytime i try to burn my idvd project it goes through all the process of encoding the video and audio which takes a long time. then when it gets to the burn section it stops and it says error multiplexing and burning.
the duration of the film is 74 mins. i tried it on best performance and best quality but still no luck
is it really that hard to burn a dvd project. this happened to me 4 years ago on an older mac and older imovie. this time i thought they may have sorted out there issuse with burning dvd.
i have over 40gb of space left on my mac
am i missing anything.
i tried to burn it in toast but after the encoding an error appears.
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hello,
i created Disk Image last night and everything was ok. iv got over 40gb space left. plenty.
i then opened toast and tried to burn it. again no joy. iv got toast 9. under the video section i select VIDEO_TS FOLDERS. it still wouldnt let me burn it.
iv just ordered some new blank dvd verbatim to see if these work. iv been doing some research and alot of people say these brand are good. so ill give them a try but i have my doubts.
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