PLEEEEEEASE HELP!!!!! Burning dvd problems

ok, i had the imac g4, and i was burning dvd's perfectly fine with it, using idvd. i'm using dvdxdv to transfer from my dvd recorder, put it in to imovie, then record off idvd. now my dvd's are incompatible with my dvd player.
do i need to use a different program to tranfer from dvd to my mac?
what am i doing wrong?
thanks

Robert,
This really doesn't sound like an iDVD issue, but a disk burning issue. Don't be too surprised in going back to iDVD5 doesn't help.
Burning at a slower speed on other media is the first thing to try, along with a proper cleaning of your DVD burner.
But let's look at your image first. When you mount the image file and view it with the Apple DVD Player, does the video look good there? Or is it still jaggied?
John B

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