Idvd final project has dead spots in sound

I recently created a slideshow in idvd where I imported photos and music. The music was downloaded from itunes. When the project was complete and burned to a Memorex write/re-write DVD, there were dead spots in the sound when I played it back on my TV/DVD player. The songs would just cut out for 3-5 seconds, then keep playing. Does anyone have any advice? Could there be an issue with the DVD I chose to use? Could fingerprints on the DVD account for this problem? Should I be looking at the idvd program as the problem?

Hello, rkotlow,
Welcome to the discussions.
First, Memorex disks are notorious for poor performance. You should be using good DVD-R disks such as Verbatim or Maxell. You should also burn at a slower speed, not faster than 4x.
Make a disk image first, using Disk Utility, that way you can check it to see if there are any audio problems:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
You can then burn your disks from within Disk Utility, selecting the burn speed:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Lastly, many of the audio drop-outs are problems with TV/DVD players, especially with newer ones. I have had problems with a Toshiba, but not with a Sony. You could try your disk in another player, and if it works, then you know your iDVD works fine. I would still burn to a better brand of DVD, though.

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