Is there a possible new PC incompatability with DVDs?

Hello all,
Our clients are starting to bring us DVDs that have QuickTimes that have been burned on PCs running video editing software(Avid I believe). The DVDs are data formatted rather than "movie type". Our problem is that on every single one of our Macs, the DVD just doesn't show up. We have G5s and iBooks and iMacs, about 12 machines all told, and not one of them will read these DVDs. One of those G5s even has a brand new LG external USB optical drive that's supposed to be able to read/write anything. However, the DVDs show up just fine in one of the older PCs we have here. Can this possibly be some weird Vista thing? I've read in some other posts about QT 7.3 messing up the ability of the drives to read. Is it that maybe?
Thanks, Ninja Bob.

Well, after talking with the tech from the video house, I figured out that the format he was using to burn the DVD was incompatible with Macs. I'm pretty sure he was using Roxio's Easy Media Creator, and he was using the latest Joliet setting. One setting that worked was the Joliet/UDF. There ws another setting called ISO 2, but I didn't get to try it.
I hope this helps others.
Ciao, NB

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