Hdiutil vs. burning in finder

hi,
can someone tell me the difference between burning via command line with hdiutil and burning via finder?  the reason i ask is because i am turning some of my home videos into dvd's that will play in a standalone player and i know how to get it to an image that can be burned (via 3rd party tools), but i can only burn it using hdiutil where doing the same thing via finder will not work (files are correct but will not play in standalone player).  i'm guessing there is a difference between the 2 burning methods?  any input is appreciated thanks,
rc

With OS X in general, various of the GUI tools are wrappers around the command-line tools, or both the GUIs and the command-line tools use the same frameworks.  Common code and all.
At the lowest levels, some DVD players are also sensitive to the particular media, with DVD-ROM and DVD-R and DVD-RW being accepted by some, some happy with DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW, and some sorts of media simply not being accepted by some players at all.
At the level of the DVD disk structures, dumb-as-a-post video players expect specific volume structures on the DVD disks, and ISO-9660 volume structures and not HFS+ volume images, and specific filenames.  It's easy to get this stuff wrong — voice of experience, there — and sometimes poking at the created volume to see what's really there is the only way to figure out what went wrong.  Sometimes the command-line tool or the GUI tool uses defaults that are... unexpected.
Installing some add-on open source can involve some fairly convoluted command syntax.  One in particular I sometimes use is very flexible, and gonzo cryptic.
More practically, I've used bash scripts to generate various sorts of images for specific targets, and there are undoubtedly some add-on GUI tools that can make this stuff easier.  Depending on what you're up to, the Apple iMovie stuff can work well, and the Apple iDVD stuff looks to be very close to what you're working on.
All that written, there are ways to burn "coasters" with both the GUI tools and with the command-line tools.
If you have a specific Finder sequence or requirement, details might help sort out what happened.  (That could be due to either the volume format created, or something with the video filenames, but I'm not at all sure...)

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