IDVD will burn but will eject before burn ends

I used to use iDVD a lot few years ago to make home videos DVDs. That time, iDVD burned almost all DVDs, when it didn't burn my DVD I could put a new DVD on the driver and start all over again and would burn. That time I used those normal 4.7 GB DVDs. Now I went to buy those dual layer DVDs because I have a big project to record (3 dual layer DVDs). I put the DVD on the driver, put it to record on iDVD, wait about one hour and then it randomly eject the DVD and on the screen the DVD was still burning. I thought it was like those times take I would put a new DVD to the driver and start all over again and it would burn, but I tried three times now and lost three DVDs now and nothing seems to work. But I'm concerned about one thing. In May the computer broke, they had to replace all the keyboard and trackpad part and also said to me that the internal HD had a physical problem and if I didn't change that HD the computer would stop sometime. As i had spent much money on the keyboard/trackpad change I said that I didn't wanted to do that now. Until today it have been very nice with that supposed "broke" HD. It imported and exported about 14 videos big videos (20 minutes to 50 minutes), have done the time machine when I want, etc. I'm very desperate and have to record those DVDs until next week. Sorry for the long text.

OK
So You made an .img file
Double click on it and You find a new Hard Disk alike icon containing two folders - VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS
Then in Your Program/Application folder You'll find DVD-player tool.
Run this and test the Virtual DVD (Hard Disk look alike icon)
Then if all is OK
Start - Disk Util tool
Then select the .img file (on left hand side)
Click on the BURN sign (Yellow/Black Circle)
When asked - Insert new DVD disk
Now set DOWN BURN SPEED
OK
Good Luck - Yours Bengt W

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