Dvd slideshow problem

folks here the situation, using iDVD, created a thanksgiving slideshow dvd back in november, everthing went fine. worked on all 3 of my dvd players in the house.
now i created a christmas slideshow dvd. using the same type of dvd, but now the dvd doesnt work on one of my dvd players, but works on the other two. it gives me an error of cant play this type of disc on the dvd player.
only thing i did different was i used a different theme, and i included both slideshows(thanksgiving and christmas). any help wpuld b great.
btw i am also using the same type of dvd

now the dvd doesnt work on one of my dvd players, but works on the other two
Sounds like burn errors to me. High burn speeds and 'cheap' media are the usual causes.
iDVD doesn't give you any control over burn speed. To avoid the issue in the future don't burn out of iDVD directly to writable media. Make your 'burn' to a disk image which is an iDVD option under FILE.
Then use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the image to writable media at a low speed - 4x or less and I prefer 2x. See Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
back in november, everthing went fine
You were lucky
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