Some DVDs work

IDVD 4.01 would reject blank DVD's for no apparent reason or crash.
So I purchased and Installed iDVD 5.01.
Now it always writes a DVD, but NONE will play on the Mac that wrote them and SOME will play on our DVD player.
DVD's that do not work on player or Mac have same symptom: disk spins for awhile and then stops. Disk sits in either drive and nothing happens. Sometimes, the Mac will eject the disk (rare.)
Repaired permissions, made disk image, which does work. Have used 3 different brands of media.

Mr Alexander,
Welcome to the iDVD forum.......
As already asked, what brands have you tried?
And can you burn data DVDs and verify them??
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42663
John

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