DVD's don't play on home DVD player?

I have had 100% success burning DVD's with DVD studio pro until now. I can't burn a DVD and have it play on a home DVD player but it plays on the computer fine? If I take the compressor files and move them to my macbook and use that DVD studio pro it works. Is there a setting I messed up accidentally?

Jim,
Bitrate ? would that be on DVD SP settings? Note that when I transfer my audio and video files from compressor on a zip drive and install them in my laptop and burn using DVD SP it works fine. Burning on my Mac Pro desktop I can only view the DVDs on the computer? Where can I check the bitrate settings
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