DVD Format Issues

I have a two year old Dual Hard disk G5 that I have begun burning DVDs on using IDVD. The DVDs that I am burning NEED to play on PC laptops and desktop machines. So far, the machines that I have tried to play the DVDs on have not been able to play them. I am assuming that many players on PCs don't have the capability to handle DVD-R. I am not sure what format my computer is capable of burning and how it may be possible, if at all, to fix this problem and make it possible to play these discs on the PC. If anyone can give me a quick explanation of this problem it would be much appreciated.
P.S. For the heck of it I even tried playing consumer grade DVD movies on my roomate's PC and the computer also did a horrible job playing THAT disc - so I don't even know where to start.
Thanks

That may be the most important issue, Len!
Windows XP ships with Windows Media Player (WiMP), but it does NOT ship with an MPEG-2 codec. Does this sound familiar? As in, OS-X ships with QuickTime (QT), but QT does not include an MPEG-2 codec?
A critical difference, though, is that WiMP will attempt to play a DVD even though it is incapable of doing so. QuickTime won't even try, but at least Apple was nice enough to give us "DVD Player", crummy as it is.
It turns out that on the DVD-equipped PCs we have at work, there WAS a rather nice DVD player application installed (Cyberlink PowerDVD), but while that program can play DVDs quite nicely, WiMP was still the default application for playing DVDs, and keeps resetting itself as default even though we keep telling Windows to use PowerDVD instead.
So look around on the PC. This doesn't help if you are developing a disc for broad distribution, but if you are in a somewhat controlled environment, the solution might be as simple as adding a desktop shortcut for a working DVD player application on the affected PCs. Launch that (most DVD drives include a (often crippleware) DVD player app along with the drivers) before inserting the DVD, and use it to play the disc.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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== Description
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