DVD stalls or hesitates on playback on external DVD players

When I play a DVD created in iDVD on DVD players (tried three) it stalls for about 5 seconds in two different places. When I play it on my computer it plays perfectly.The movies on this DVD were created in iMovie. When I play them in Quicktime player they perform perfectly.
What could be causing this?

Thank you J. and all for the great advice on DVD writing.
I have again rendered the two movies that stall in one place for 2 or 3 seconds. (Five others previously processed without error.)
I then burned the I-DVD file at 2x on single-sided Verbatim DVD-R media.
I then played the DVD on a number of different players. Some played through without error. Other DVD players still had the stalling problem for a couple of seconds.
Since I will be publishing this DVD, with no control over the player people will use, I need to clear up this problem. I have gone back repeatedly to my source file and find no errors there. I will pursue this problem further with the Boinx, the creators of FotoMagico which I am using to author the videos. Perhaps they will know of others who encountered similar problems.
Thanks all again for your helpful input.
Len Sroka

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