IDVD Randomly Quitting during burn?

Hullo! Posting here cause I've been quite unsuccessful in burning two dvds of mine.
I have about 25 episodes in .avi format that seem to work in preview, work in quicktime/VLC ect.
But halfway through the burn process iDVD just randomly quits on me, doesn't say why but just comes up with a " A disk has been inserted what do you want to do ". Why this happens I don't know, because the disk has been in there through the burn process the whole time
Anyway just looking for some feedback as to whats going wrong. Also I converted it to DVD format through VisualHub but iDVD doesn't recognize that either, and I tried repairing some disk permissions or whatnot to see if that would help.

Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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