Disc issue: urgent! Artefacts and stutter in dvds.

Dear All,
I'd appreciate any advice.
I'm using idvd5 with a g5 powermac 1.8ghz on osx10.4. (Even though this is an older version of idvd, I post in this forum because I'm not sure the problem is unique to that version).
I've been burning copies of a 70-minute video onto dvd. For months this has been working fine.
All of sudden, the dvds burnt from this file have issues. The discs play fine for some or nearly all of their length and then they stutter, break-up, and have various colored artefact blocks appearing randomly on the screen. This happens at different points in each disc.
I don't know what this issue can be it. It is not a problem in the original quicktime movie from the DV, I've checked that. I have tried re-mastering the dvd without success. As far as I can tell it is not a problem with the dvd brand because the same issue occurs over several brands.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard
UK

Hi Richard,
If you haven't already, please also post your question/s in the appropriate forum / iDvd5 which is the version of iDvd you are apparently using. Your post might get the attention it deserves in that forum.
Good luck on this.

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Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
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