Quicktime won't playback dv quicktime movie authored in imovie hd

After authoring a movie in imovie hd and saving it as a dv quicktime file and burning it to a dvd on my G4 powerbook, the dvd freezes on the first couple of frames and just stutters forward. However, when I play the same dvd on my desktop imac g5 with identical software, the dvd plays back just fine. Any suggestions?

Agree that DV is optimum. However, I consider this more of a "master editing" rather than "master distribution" level. However, now that you mention it, I was wondering what your QT preferences are on your laptop. When I checked mine. I noticed the movie cache was defaulted to only 100 MBs. Couple ths with the "auto cache movie" setting and I wondered if the first 1.75 seconds or so of your movie was totally filling the cache and chocking play. (I assume here that a file already on the laptop HDD would not trigger the "auto cache" preference.) In any case, just a thought for whatever it may be worth. Let us know if turning off caching or re-setting the limit has any effect.

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