DVD won't play in my mac, but it will in the DVD player

So we made this great little film about our son swimming and burned it to a disk. The disk playes just fine in regular dvd players. However, when we tried to view it on the computer, it says that it is a blank disk. Why would this be and how can I view the movie on my computer?
Thanks
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Welcome turk_cubed
Try making a disc image from the file menu of your iDVD6 project first. Test that disc image with apple's DVD Player application. If it plays as expected then use apple's disc utilities or toast to burn to Verbatim DVD-R or Maxell at 4x or slower.
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