Burning DVD for DVD Player and Computer

Hi everybody.
I thought that I saw this somewhere here, but after looking for it for the past 1 1/2 hours (Unsuccessfully I might add , I thought that I would just ask.
When I burn a project to a DVD using Quicktime and iDVD, I can view it on a DVD player and on my Apple computers, but not on a windows based machine. Can I burn a DVD that will play on any computer? How?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Brian

Could well be a +R issue. The player must be able to read +R.
-R is the most universal and should play on just about any DVD machine.
I noticed that the older the machine the more things things can go wrong for no apparent reason. Later model stuff play just about anything even +R, dual layer, RAM etc. Always check the player specs if you have them.
Al

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name's avatar is of the representative PowerPC iMac G4, of this forum area.}
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