DVD plays well on some machines, gets stuck on others

Made a 20-minute DVD, having done all my editing, etc. in iMovie and exported to iDVD5. Once burned, tested it on my iMac and it worked fine. Also worked fine in a friend's stand-alone DVD player.
But some users since have this problem: the DVD plays well for a few minutes, but gets "stuck" after a while, and ultimately freezes. And it's not the same "stuck" point for each user (if that was the case, I would think the physical disk had a problem.) It's different points for different people that it seems to get "stuck" and freezes.
In one case, user took "stuck" disk out of stand-alone DVD player and watched it in their laptop (PC) and all went well.
Any hints as to why the DVD is getting stuck on some DVD players?
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4
Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Probably a "bad" burn, the result of a DVD-R that some players don't like.
Try these things:
1) another brand of DVD-R (I Like Verbatim)
2) Burn at a slower speed. To do this with iDVD you have to "save as disk image" and then burn the image with Disk Utility (DU) or Toast. For some reason, I can't always choose slower burning speeds with DU, not sure why.
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