IDVD will not play in DVD player :( help appreciated!!!

hi, I have been trying to get this gift, a slideshow to a very dear friend and have spend DAYS trying to figure this out. I have burned a slideshow to a DVD-R using the iDVD application. And the DVD will not play in ANYTHING but a playstation 3 unit. I even tried creating an image of the slideshow and saving it to the desk top and burning it to a dvd using disk utilities and still not working I am SO disheartened help appreciated. If I put it in a dvd player or a computer it plays pieces of it like choppy and or skipping. In the playstation it plays fine. But she does not have a playstation. THANKS

Hi
Most often - Cheap DVD brand -
I only use
• Verbatim
• DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) (SL)
• burn speed set down to x1 or x4 recommended by many
• minimum of 25Gb free space on internal boot hard disk (others do not count)
Yours Bengt W

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