DVD playback stalls after 1st second

Question

I recently upgraded my PowerPC G4 733 MHz to OS X10.4.8 and purchased the new iLife 06. I've attempted to create both slideshows (using iPhoto) and movies (using a combo of Keynote and iMovie) to produce a DVD using iDVD.
Although the 4x internal superdrive is within the system requirements for these updates, it doesn't seem to be able to playback the DVD it created.
Why is this happening? And what can I do to correct it?
susan

Answer 1

Susan,
A 733/G4 is right at the cutoff point for iDVD6 so it maybe very slow for you.
I suggest you create a Disk Image of your iDVD project File>Save as Disk Image.
Then open the image by double-clicking on it and use Apple's DVD Player application to play the open image.
If the disk image plays ok, you can then use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the image to writable media. (If the image plays, come back here and we can give you more help to use Disk Utility.)
This process lets you separate the encoding from the burning and help establish where problems may come from.