Faulty Transitions (green screen) in burned DVD and no play on iMac

I made my first DVD with iDVD '08 this week and initially all seemed to be OK.
It contains 7 slide shows and 7 movies, total size 4.02 GB.
The problems I have since found are are :-
1. The DVD will not play in my iMac 24", the menus judder or lock up, and the movies judder and skip. When I play the DVD in a real DVD player the menus and movies are fine.
2. On the DVD player the slide shows are OK to start with, having the correct 'Dissolve' transition between sides. The problem is that after about 30 slides the transition is replaced by a green screen between slides.
When I view the DVD in iDVD it works OK, but not when burned.
I also exported a disc image and that also has the same transition issues, so it looks like iDVD is outputting faulty files.
I redid my DVD in a different theme and removed the slide transitions which reduced the DVD to less than 2GB, it seems to work OK now, but I would like to use transitions at some point!
Ian

Ian,
I made a project with only one "drop zone" slideshow by pulling 99 pictures from the media iPhoto window with dissolve transitions.
It failed with about a dozen green screen transitions in the end of the slide show.
I remove one picture reducing the count to 98.
It was good. No green screen transitions.
I saved as .img to eliminate disc problems.
I repeated the test for several themes especially 7.0s which others have found to be problems.
I tested all qualities and both ratios.
With my 20"iMac 99 pictures in one slide show fail, 98 and less work.
I don't understand why your project with slide shows of less than 98 pictures is not working.
Your total project was relatively large and could be a memory error. I suggest testing a smaller project, it won't drive you so crazy waiting an hour or more for each processing cycle.
There are certainly other concerns such as free disc space and RAM etc, and before the latest updates push from iPhoto to iDVD produced different results than pull to iDVD from iPhoto, etc.
History: the 99 limit was the reality that many DVD player will buffer overflow at more than 99 chapters (each picture is seen as a chapter). The original iDVD limited each slide show to 99.
Recent releases allowed as many pictures in one slide show 'drop zone' as desired.
I have been limiting myself to 99 so they will play on most DVD players.
The 99 number and info you quoted from Apple guidelines I find to now be wrong.
They have a bug.
I suggest sending a bug report from iDVD.
I'm an engineer and I've been messing with this for a week trying to get a project out.
Hope this helps
Best wishes
Chris

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