DVD's sticking

Hi, I have created a movie in iMovie, imported it to iDVD and created a project with some avi files - so far so good! I've burnt the DVD and plays fine if I play it back on the Mac, however, if I try and play it any other DVD player it keeps sticking. Sometimes it starts again after a second or 2, and sometimes I have to go back to the menu.
The sticking seems to always be in the same place.
Has anyone come across this problem? If so, did you find a solution?
Thanks

avi's come in many different flavors (not one of iDvd's strong points btw). some work, some don't. and it is a real pain in the neck when they don't work as expected. You can try mpegstreanclip or visual hub and see if it helps. Yes, I have dealt with this same issue before. Most of the time i simply leave it alone or try a different dvd player.
But when I absolutely cannot afford this kind of mistake/s, I first burn a disc image to the desktop, and I then test the image with apple's dvd player app. If it plays as expected, then I lower the burn speed to 4x or lower and use Verbatim or Maxell Dvd-R.
At least one time, after doing all of the above it still paused in the very same spot and like you I'd be forced back to the main menu within iDvd. And in this one instance I simply gave up.....
That is I gave up using iDvd to burn this image to Dvd-R. Instead I used Roxio Toast (fully expecting the very same results) but guess what? ..... it worked perfectly. (Don't ask me why).
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