Compressed HD Footage onto DVD+r DL

I am a wedding videographer and had only produced wedding dvd’s in standard definition format. I have now shot and edited a wedding in HD and without the use of blu-ray(since mac’s aren’t compatible), I’ve compressed what would be about 15gb of footage down to 6.1. I figured I could burn it to a DVD+R DL disk from DVD Studio Pro and it would at least work in DVD/Blu-ray players(albeit at a lesser quality).
Everything burns fine and it works as a dvd in my computer after it is done burning. I try to play it in my Blu-ray player and my neighbors dvd player and it says, “Disc Error: --Please eject the disc-- Playback feature may not be available on this disc.”
I went to Film school years ago and this was well before HD was a prominent media. I am trying to learn HD as I go and I usually do figure this out, but I have been stumbling on this for months now and I need to send this to my client soon.
I am assuming HD footage on an sd DVD is the problem here, but I’m not sure what I can do to solve my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Most likely you built an HD DVD. This is a non starter.
If you want to burn a Blu-Ray disk, do a search here. DVDSP doesn't enter into the process.
If you want to use HD type material in a regular ol' DVD, convert the material to m2v and ac3 using one of the standard DVD presets in Compressor then import that material to DVDSP, build and burn a DVD.
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fwiw - This whole issue ought to be in a "read before posting" sticky at the top of the DVDSP forum as it gets asked/kicked about a couple of times a day around here.

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