IDVD disk image burning

I created a disk image from an iDVD project and now I want to burn it on DVD.
I checked first on Apple DVD Player and VLC and the DVD played fine. Audio and video worked.
Burned using Toast, but when I played it on my standalone DVD player, there was no audio! I thought it could have been due to the empty AUDIO-TS folder, but I remembered it's supposed to be empty (unless it's a special audio DVD??).
Went back to the .img file, mounted and used DiskUtility to burn. Again, I checked first if it played on Apple DVD Player. It did, audio and video were OK but when played on the standalone DVD player there was no audio.
I tried again with DiskUtility and used a slower burning speed. Result: still no audio when played on a standalone DVD player.
The burned DVDs play with audio when I view them on my Powerbook.
I wonder what could be wrong. Should I go back to my iDVD Project even if audio and video are fine (on the disk image)? I'm at a loss.
Message was edited by: lovewg

If it plays in your computer player (and you say it does), the place to look for problems is in the set top DVD player playback.
Some set top DVD players don't like writable media.
If you didn't use 'good quality' media like Verbatim, or Maxell burned at 4x or slower, your disc could have a lot of burn errors that are causing problems. Computer players tend to have better error correction than set top players and are more tolerant of burn-errors.

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