Video blacked out in disk image

hi the movie looks good in idvd preview. but the burned disk video plays black, only sound and subtitles.
the media is .avi
what is the fix?

Good morning, Robert.
The video format .avi can cause complications, but it's a good sign that iDVD preview can handle it. In burning a disc, iDVD only burns a single video layer and normally cannot handle subtitles unless they are combined with the video itself.
Can you provide more details about the source video? (in the source video can you turn the subtitles on and off? when you use Quicktime to view the video, what are the video properties -- eg, more than one video track/video format/etc? have you previously burned a DVD from this source?)
John

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