Device error during burning w/iDVD

Well, I spent some time learning about codec et al and was able to get a divx file to run on QT... movie looks good on MAC when running QT. I put into idvd and it also looked good as I ran it in preview. Spent several hours in burn process and at the end the dvd was ejected with below message. The dvd physically looks properly burned but it is not accepted by my dvd player... I've made many imovie projects that burned properly in idvd.
"The recording device reported the hardware error: No write current. (0x03, 0x01.)"

Rick,
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (not the .img, the one below) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down. Select a burn speed. Your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
b Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD 5 project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Use Verbatim DVD-R. Burn at 4X or slower. Office Depot and Best Buy carry them by me.

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