Movie Jitters on freeze frame

Hi all,
I have editited some home movie footage and put some freeze frames with caption (text) into my movie. When I play it on my mac it is fine. When I burn it to a DVD and play it on my DVD players, it has jitters (stutters) on two out of four freeze frames. What could be causing this? I am burning in DV-PAL format. I have exported it as a quicktime .mov file and watching it on my mac is fine it is only when I play the DVD on the DVD player. AAGGHHHH...someone help!!

Thanks Piero!
All fixed. I read up on the de-interlace. Learning something new every day!
Applied it to the freeze frames and voila...PERFECT!
Thanks again.

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