IDVD won't burn a disc.

The "burn" cycyl of iDVD ejects the disc before the burn cycle is complete. There are two minutes left each time. I have tried burning projects that have burned successfully in the past, with the same result. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Hi
What am I doing wrong?
Yes - how about do You think we will know ?
When You feed us no info at all !
• What kind of material did You feed iDVD (Video-codecs, Photo fiel formats and Audio file formats)
• How long in duration is material - in minutes ?
• What theme did You select to use ?
• is this theme Animated or Still ?
• Any Music/Audio on theme MENU ?
• What BRAND of DVD did You use ?
• What type of DVD did You use ?
• What Encoding Quality did You use ?
• Free Space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk - How Much ?
• Version of iDVD ?
And that's just to start us up
DID YOU TRY (or Please DO)
• Save as a DiskImage
• test play this with Apple DVD-tool
• then burn this .img file to a DVD - BY USING - Apple Disk Util tool
This way we find out where in the process it goes wrong.
Yours wanting to help - but never any good in MIND-READING - Bengt W

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