Problems viewing finished burned iDVD on home DVD players

I just created a simple slideshow for Father's Day with iDVD08 and burned it to a Maxell DVD-R DVD. No problem. Then played the burned DVD on my iMAC G5 and again no problem. I have three songs that play throughout the 110 slide show.
Then I played the DVD on our Blue Ray DVD player. Initially it worked fine, then all of a sudden, I get a bright green screen inbetween each slide. I had the cube effect going then suddenly 25 slides into the "show", this bright green screen fills the space, then the next slide appears (no cube effect now) and then green, and then the next slide. The music continues to play.
I then took the DVD downstairs to play on our regular Toshiba DVD player. and this time I get DISK ERROR and it won't play at all.
I burned the DVD using default settings (and Region 1) -- what should I do differently.
Please advise!

The Green Screen problem is a know issue and can be fixed by not letting your computers screen go to sleep or screen saver activate which the DVD is being burned.
Here is the Apple article that covers the issue :-
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1044
As to your DVD not playing at all in one of your DVD players, that can sometimes be the case as all DVD players do not follow the DVD standard and can be incompatible with self burned DVD's.

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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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Region codes.
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1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
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• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
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• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
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• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
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• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
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