DVD Burns; no DVD Player Playback?

I am able to burn a DVD using DVDSP4 (Universal) and it will play back on any Mac or PC I try it on. However, putting it in various DVD Players (I've tried at least a dozen) will have it only say "Loading..." , then freeze or say "No Disc" on some; others work fine. I also tried a similar project in iDVD with the same results. Is there incompatibility with Mac-burned DVDs with some types of DVD players? I have tried Panasonic, JVC and Sony DVD Players; Apple, JVC and HP DVD-R's and different combinations of each.

It is strange that so many different players are having problems with so many diiferent forms of media, usually it is just one or two combinations and not that prevavlent.
I know some people who get iDVD to work better than DVD SP on a problematic player they have, but it is usually just one (i.e., they have one of many players act "weird") And I tried to get DVD SP discs to work on the problem player, but in fact it was sporadic as you have described.
If you can go through each step of how you are making the DVDs, compression rates, Dolby/apac rates, burn speeds etc, there may be something there (you should encode .mov outside of DVD SP)
On thing to try is to put a small few second move/FBI warning or something on the dsic, some people have indcated going to first play of a menu will mess up players for them

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