DVD will play on iMac, not on DVD player

I'm burning dual layer DVDs from iDVD. The DVDs won't play on my DVD player, but will play fine using the DVD player on the iMac. Anyone have any idea why?

But for 6 hours of VHS video, it will take two DL DVD disks.
You might want to think about importing the footage into iMovie and editing it.
I put footage from about 35 VHS tapes and about 40 Hi-8 tapes onto miniDV tapes for importing into iMovie and found that there was a quite a bit of bad footage: shots of ceilings and floors, jerky movements, shots of nothing important. With good editing, the footage total time length was cut down, and I have been able to use single-layer DVDs for all my iMovies. I have put our family's photos and videos onto DVDs in chronologic order. I have now done 30 years worth--the last 10 years were recorded onto miniDV tapes so no conversion needed. Some years took only one DVD; other years had to go on several; a couple of years we were very busy on trips/doing plays and sports and it took 5 or 6 disks for the year.
If you are not interested in editing, you wouldn't need to use a computer, just get one of those VHS-DVD converting machines.

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