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I made a video for a client's 50th b-day party, and burned it with DVDSP 3.
I am using Verbatim, DatalifePlus 16x media.
It plays fine on my G5 and my TV's DVD player, as well as on my clients computer, but not on his TV's DVD player.
I am not sure what kind of equipment the DJ at his party will use, but of course I want to be confident it will work.
Anyone have issues like this, or any solutions/explanations?
Thanks.

If I was going to wager, it sounds like the player is old.
The other items can also cause issues, sometimes high rates can cause problems, but it does not sound like that is the case with the rates you used, especially if you (?) used AC3 for the audio. Usually that would happen more if playback is poor (as oppossed to not playing at all.) Also note that some players handle dirt/scratches better than others, so some may play the disc and another may not. Of course the last thing is that it is DVD SP causing the issue. Some players have issues with how DVD SP authors a disc.
I would try burning slower (as suggessted) and try a different brand of media. If you are able to find out which machine they have you may be able to find out what it is designed to play (media -R/+R etc.) of if there are known issues with the machine. Usually older machines would work with -R if there was going to be one over the other.
Take a look here
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Verbatim seems to be rated well. Personally I like Taiyo Yuden -R for SL and Verbatim +R for DL

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