Cannot burn DVD...

Hi, for the last several weeks, my iMac G5 (iSight) does not burn DVDs. I did a little research and found iMac is very picky with DVD media. Recently I quit using Toast and changed to us Finder to burn DVD. Then an error code 536870198 appeared and could not burn. Similar media error happened when I was using Toast. It showed error 3-5 minutes after clicking 'burn' icon. I used optical drive cleaner, made sure the blank DVDs were without dirt or dust. I even tried different brands of blank DVDs - no success. Tried Staple brand blank DVDs (at the beginning, no problem), Maxell blank disk (no problem in the past), Sony... name a few, none works now. I do not know what else I should do. If someone knows how to solve this problem, I will appreciate your advise. I've thrown away so many DVDs because of this...

You need to update from Toast 6.0 to 6.1.1. The update is a free download from the Roxio site. 6.0 had the buffer underrun problem. In later versions you can turn on buffer underrun prevention in the Recorder Settings window (I think it is on by default).
Meanwhile, as you found the missing AUDIO_TS folder isn't necessary. It's empty on DVDs anyway. When you tried burning using Apple's disc-burning tools the disc was formatted as HFS+ & ISO 9660 rather than as UDF. That's why it wouldn't play in a DVD player. To use Disk Utility to burn your DVD you must first download and use DVDImager to make a UDF disc image.
But I prefer Toast.
If you want to just copy the existing DVD the easiest thing to do is choose the Toast Copy window, select the DVD and click the burn button. Another option is, instead of clicking the burn button, choose Save as Disc Image from the Toast File menu. When the disc image is finished, select it with the Image File setting in the Toast Copy window and click the burn button.
If you have a VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive you can use Toast 6.0.7 and above's DVD video from VIDEO_TS option in the Toast Video window.

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