Cannot Burn Disk Image to DVD in Disk Utility!! Help

Have always been able to burn a DVD of a particular video I made.
I saved it as a disk image then I burn it in disk utility. I have burned doaens of the same file, now I am getting the error message "the device drained its buffer without burn underrun protection"
I am not running any other programs during the burn. Can anybody help me?
I am using OS 10.3.9

Hi, just asking, are you trying to burn the DMG, or restore it to a DVD?

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