Player Compatability Issues

I exported a SD video (about an hour and 20 minutes) from Final Cut Pro as a self-contained QT movie and imported it into iDVD. It took 1.5-2 hrs to compress and encode in iDVD. I tried it on 2 dvd players and it would play a little and pause on its own. I tried it on my macbook pro and it played a little and kept crashing the DVD Player on the mac. The disc was a DVD-R from Comp USA.
1. Can discs encoded from iDVD generally be expected to play in most home players these days? OR do you need to move up to DVD Studio Pro to make sure they play?
2. If it was a disc issue, what types of discs are best for making sure they will play in most home players.
3. Are there any other settings in iDVD I should be aware of for making sure the disk has the best change of playing in home players?
Thanks!!!!

Disk quality and slow burn speed are probably the two most important issues as far as compatability goes.
Maxell and Verbatim have the best track record here. For best results, they should be burned at 4x or slower. With iDVD 6 the only way to reduce the burn speed is to create a disk image file out of iDVD (an option under FILE). You can play the disk image with Apple's DVD Player application to insure it is OK and then burn the disk image file to writable media with Apple's Disk Utility (which allows you to reduce the burn speed) or Roxio's Toast Titanium (also allows burn speed control) if you have it.
FWIW, I have used CompUSA DVDs for tests - but ONLY the 1x versions burned at 1x.

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