Problems Playing Burned Disks

So I've been at this all morning and I'm so frustrated. I've burned this one file onto a CD-R disk and it says that it's there however it won't play on my TV or when I pop the disk out and then pop it back into Mac it doesn't play there either. I've tried everything. Am I burning the disks wrong? Help.

Hello David,
Is there a way to get IDVD 5 to burn to the EXTERNAL DVD burner INSTEAD of the internal superdrive that I've had for 5 years?
iDVD 5 does not support external burners natively. Follow Andrews suggestion and create a disk image .... this is a recommended procedure anyway, as it minimizes burn errors due to lack of burn speed control in iDVD.
Is there a way to avoid toast 6 lite opening automatically when I insert a disc into the external drive?
You can change these settings in System Preferences under "CDs & DVDs"
Alternately, is there a way to bring the IDVD 5 information into toast 6 lite? so that it will play the same way as if I had created a disk straight from IDVD?I've tried creating an image, and bringing it into Toast 6 (I've dragged the icon into the video tab, which it won't allow, and the data tab won't play on my DVD player.
I'm not 100% sure about Toast Lite (always used Titanium), but you should be able to burn the DVD using the disc copy option.
If an external hard drive is the wrong way to go, then I'm still having the issue of getting green squares/pausing/glitching on the DVD's, and I'd be at the same place as VladC.
Trust me you won't - just get good quality DVD-R media and burn at slow speed (2x).
hope this helps
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