DVD burner and DVD Studio Pro

Are the Mac Pros and the other intel macs have better compatibility with authoring DVDs than the G4s? I'm on my dual 867 mhz G4, and when I encode using compressor with the default setting, and build it in DVD Studio Pro, the dvd plays fine on my sony player but not on some other DVD players like JVC. My friends JVC recorer is new, they just got it a month ago, and it says it plays DVD/R discs. I produced a 7 minute short, and even with the short film, it still has problems playing on some dvd players.

I've cleaned it using disc cleaner and I've also burned the video_ts files to my sony DVD burner (my sony DVD burner is only 3 months old) besides the burner in my Mac and I'm still having playback issues on some DVD players? I've also tested them without dvd lables on verbatim discs. So no one else is having any problems authoring their DVDs on the Mac Pros or the other intel based macs?

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Model Name: iMac
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Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
OS X 10.6.6 Snow leopard.
Hi there, I have been experiencing this problem on and off with various media types (originally I had issues burning to any disc - cd or dvd- I upgraded to Snow leopard, and the problem was fixed).
Now i'm having issues READING home-burned DVD-R's, DVD-RW's ( I avoid using DVD+R's). Commercial dvd's load fine. I can burn to blank DVD fine. I have cleaned the internal DVD drive with a VCD cleaner, and tried resetting the SMC (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964).
I use an LG dvd recorder at home. The discs I use are SONY DVD-R and DVD-RW. These play without error on the LG dvd player.
However when I try to load the burned discs into the mac, the drive makes a whirring sound and spits out the discs within 10 secs. These are new discs with no scratches etc. I have tried setting the CD&DVD system prefs differently (opening the dvd in disk utility, finder etc) to no avail. I tried both finalizing the discs and un-finalizing them on the DVD player.
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note: I recently had my computer serviced in the last 6months as the hard-drive failed (I live in Christchurch, NZ and the computer was damaged in the Sept 2010 quake). The comp was relatively undamaged in the more recent Feb 22nd 2011 quake, but because of the shaking, could there have been substantial damage to the internal disc drive in this case??
any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9005547/Avoidthe_top_five_disc_burningmistakes
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a chance of other hardware damage after an earthquake, it
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{I've asked this post be moved to the Intel-based iMac forum, yet the issue
is likely a generic one not limited to a build model vintage of computer. My
name's avatar is of the representative PowerPC iMac G4, of this forum area.}
For general disc burning, I use a small free-ware utility that makes it clear
what I may be getting; of course it makes quick work and the other methods
function correctly on my Macs... see http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ and use
it with the setting for it to make discs that will work in Mac + PC. Worth a look.
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Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my

Like allen says, post this info...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
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Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
Then click on Hardware>Disk Burning & report what it says, like ...
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222L:
Firmware Revision:          SB02
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path:          None
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type:          DVD-RW
Blank:          Yes
Erasable:          Yes
Overwritable:          Yes
Appendable:          Yes

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my mac

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my mac

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At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
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Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
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Bus Speed: 800 MHz
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Firmware Revision:          SB02
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path:          None
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
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Blank:          Yes
Erasable:          Yes
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I just want the user to be able to run my video clips either on a
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