Stuttering in stand alone dvd players

I can"t understand why when i burn dvd's they tend to stutter in stand alone dvd players but plays jus fine in my mac dvd player. Can anyone tell me why this happens. Is it the bit rate or the the dvd media. I can't figure it out.

Is the shuttering constant ? If not it could be a support problem.
If it is constant (strobe-like), however then I suspect it's an interlace field order thing.
In this case the ordering of the interlace fields is wrong. But either the DVD player on Mac accounts for a different order than the standard one, or it the process of converting the interlaced signal into progressive (that's how computer displays are) automatically removes the concept of field ordering.
baubau
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