Dvd burning format

I am wanted to know how do you burn a dvd and have it be able to play on a dell windows pc what format should you save it in when your in final cut and how should you save it if you what to email it on a pc mac is not hooked on net

Compresion for DVD-video is always mpeg2.
No matter on what machine it is beiing played (dvd-player, mac, pc).
The format in your NLE is not that important, aslong as it will be accepted by your DVD-authoring app.
This app. will convert it into mpeg2.

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