Dvds made from idvd are sometimes incompatible with PCs

I work in a university setting that has a mix of mac and pcs. I make the dvds using iDVD but am running into problems when they get played on pcs. Is there a preference or something special I can do when I know it will be played on those systems?

Three things you can try:
1. First, make sure that the PC's on which you are trying to play your disks have a DVD player, and not just a CD player.
2. Try burning at a slower speed (4x or lower). iDVD won't let you adjust the burn speed, so what you do is save your iDVD as a Disk Image (an option on the File menu. This will take a while because all the decoding will be done. Then you can burn your DVD disk from the disk image using the Utility/Disk Utility app on your Mac. Open Disk Utility and select your project whose name should appear in the left hand pane of the window. If it is not there, then drag your project into that pane and select it. Then insert a DVD-R disk and select Burn.
3. Use DVD-R disks, not DVD+R.
4. Use good quality DVD media like Maxell, Verbatim, or Fuji DVD-R disks. I happen to like hp (Hewlett Packard) disks myself, but in any event avoid discount or cheapo disks.
As others have said, the DVD's that you make on your Mac should play anywhere.

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