Viewing mac dvd on windows vista

I burned a dvd on my mac (OS X 10.6.4) that indicated it could be viewed on any mac or windows computer but when I try to load it onto a vista computer it shows up as an blank or unreadable.

What does the DVD contain - data or videos or ?
If it's data, it has to be burned in a manner to be readable by both systems; if it's video, the footage needs to be encoded/rendered to be readable by any player, etc, etc.

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