Problem playing burned dvd outside North America

Hello !
So i burned a dvd on my mac (bought in cupertino), with some pictures(jpg/png) and videos(mp4/mov). I sent this dvd to my folks in India, and on their PCs it simply wont read the dvd. I verified that the dvd works properly on my windows laptop here in Toronto.
Any idea why the dvd wont play on windows PC / laptop in India, but works fine here in north america ?
Is there some setting 'international' or somethin that should be set/unset when burning ?
Thanks !

Hi Setla,
And welcome to the forum. If it looks fine on your set top box and you used the same media as the disks you sent to your friends. Then I would drop the encoding bit rate and / or convert your audio to dolby (if thats applicable). Compressor checks for a maximum bit rate on build but that doesn't necessarily mean all players will be able to handle this (stacks of variables). My first choice would be to convert the audio and then if need be attack the video.
When making DVD's I would also recommend using something like Toast as this will go through a verify cycle which should rule out any dodgy media or writes.
Enjoy.

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