DVD's crash consistently when watched

Whenever I try to watch a dvd for more than an hour or so, the computer consistently freezes, unable to force quit, resulting in a forced restart. All films seem to crash at least once. I am watching using idvd. This is a very frustrating problem, especially with all the piracy stuff you are forced to watch each time you start a dvd!
anyone had similar problems/know any solutions?
thanks
g4 powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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QUOTE I've had a similar problem with my G4 I-Mac.
It had problems recognising CD-RWs and just rejected them out of hand. It was better with the higher speed CDs though. Last night my daughter said the computer wouldn't play a (legal) copy of 'Finding Nemo'. I put it down to the fact it was scratched to ****. (This is why I copy the films in the first place) I therefore copied the original again and tried to play it. Again it was rejected by the I-Mac. Thinking it was because I'd burned it on a DVD+R disc, I copied it again this time onto a DVD-R disc, but again it was rejected. Then tried it on our TV DVD player and it was fine.
SO................(finally gets to the point of this long post), I used a 2 brush wet laser lens cleaner, proprietary name 'discwasher digital' and hey presto, no problem with the I-Mac reading Nemo or my CD-RWs.
-Might be worth a try!
Martin.
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