Some photos jiggle when DVD played on TV

My 13:30 project is composed of jgp and png images, along with strips of m4v files exported from iPhoto. There are also two titles made with Live Type.
My problem is that when playing the burned DVD on TV, some photos jiggle. I've tried two different types (quality levels?) of media.
There's no jiggle when playing the DVD on computer, nor is there in the mov file.
What do you suspect?
Suggestions welcome.
(I may next try making a dmg file in iDVD and burn with iDisk or Roxio).
Thanks,
Terry D

OK, the problem was caused by photos that were scanned at 480dpi (supplied by my client and overlooked by me). I reduced these to 72dpi and they juggling.

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1. used iMovie (varied transitions and times per slide) to build the slideshow then exported to iDVD and burned to disc. (I did not let iMovie render.)
2. built the slideshow in iPhoto (varied transitions), exported to QuickTime Movie, then to iMovie and finally to iDVD.
3. built the slideshow in iPhoto and exported to iDVD from there.
4. used iDVD to build the entire slideshow from the iPhoto album: chose "page flip" as the transition.
The KBE was off in each case.
Version #4 looked the best on the computer monitor and so I went one step further with this one and added music - a piece stored in iTunes Library.
All four versions were burned onto the same disc and all four played smoothly on the computer; however, when I played the disc on my television, the images in version #4 'jumped' - each image was clear for only about a second. The television is HD.
Is there an explanation, and hopefully a fix, for this problem? Since the only difference between version #4 and the other three is the addition of an audio track, would that have created the problem?

I'm not sure why that is happening. You could try reburning at a lower speed and changing your disk brand to another high quality brand like Maxell or Verbatim. Make sure you have at least 10GB free disk space to burn. I doubt that the music is the cause, but you could try changing or eliminating that too, as well as eliminating or changing the transition. To adjust your burn speed you would need to save your iDVD project as a Disk Image (from the File menu), and then burn it using the Utilities/Disk Utility app on your Mac. (When you open the Disk Utility window, if your iDVD project is not displayed in the left hand pane, then drag it in there. Select it and burn.) On my computer, the burn speed defaults to 4x, which is slow enough. Alternatively, you could burn using another program like Roxio Toast, that gives you more burn speed options.
You've done some handy research, and perhaps you could share your findings. Which of the methods that you used produced the clearest images in the final burned project when you played back your DVD on your TV? (Obviously you were having trouble with the iDVD one, but you might get it working.) Others have remarked that iDVD slide shows display better on computer preview playback, but I have not seen any comments as to whether the final burned product on DVD plays any clearer than slideshows created in iPhoto or iMovie.
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I am using DVDSP 3. When I play the dvd on a mac there is a white bar at the top of the screen saying the marker names. If I watch the same dvd on the dvd player hooked up with my tv, it plays fine and does not show any extra area the white bar at the top. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening?

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Hi, I don't know if anyone can help.
I am new to creating DVD's, but did this weekend - my band's promo movie. I created the movie and rendered it to High Quality via iMovie HD - the movie includes the audio.
I burnt the DVD by Roxio Toast 6 via an external DVD writer (that always defaults to NTSC format, althugh I am UK based and tried choosing the PAL option to no avail).
When the DVD was put in the Mac it played fine with audio. When put in my DVD player to view on TV, the DVD plays as normal EXCEPT there is no sound!
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It sounds like your PAL DVD player doesn't like to play NTSC discs.
Take a look at: Exporting your movie for viewing in a PAL or NTSC format at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/HD/en/im110.html
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