My DVD won't play on a DVD player.

I created an iMovie project. I brought it into iMovie, created a DVD project, titles, chapter headings, everything great. I burned the DVD project to a disk image. When I subsequently burned the image to a disk, it played on the computer, but when I put into a DVD player, it claims the disc is a data disc, and nothing plays. Any clues as to what I did wrong, and better yet, how do I make it work. ~Thanks.

Hi
When DVD do not play it use to be
• One has made a Data-DVD and not a Video-DVD
Data-DVDs are made by just popping in the DVD and You see it on DeskTop/Finder and drop files onto it. When Ejected it Burns and result is a Data-DVD
To make a Video-DVD You need to use a program that can structure the DVD into a Video-DVD structure
a. iDVD can do this
b. DiskUtil tool can do this from a DVD DiskImage
c. Roxio Toast™ too
• Use of Cheap DVD Brand - I only use Verbatim
• DVD-type used - I use DVD-R as they play on more (and even older) DVD-Players
• I set down Burn speed to x4 as this gives less Burn Errors ==> Plays better
Yours Bengt W

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