Chapter markers don't work on a DVD player

I have burned multiple copies of a DVD from iDVD. I checked everything and each menu works fine on my imac. However when I put it in any dvd player and try to go to the separate chapters it freezes and nothing happens. Only in the chapters though. I can play the movie fine and go into special features. I just can't jump to different scenes in the movie. Can anyone give me any help or pointers please?

I have an experience that I burned a disk with chapters working.....then added music...burned the same project again and the chapters would not work anymore.
So it might be, that the music in the menu causes some problem.
I also look for a solution...I want to burn menus WITH music AND menus that work
pierre

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Just thinking.
• Did You try more than one stand alone DVD-player ?
• When You burned Your DVD - Did the internal Hard disk have more than 25Gb free space
iDVD and Mac OS Can't address any other for it's temp files - pretty important.
If so I would.
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I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
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