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Hi,
I have a lot of DVD-coasters laying around. I spent hours working around some iMovie bugs/features and dealt so far with iDVD 5's oddities, and learned how to create a disc image and check the QT movie for stutters/errors. I burned from Disc Utility using Verbatim DVD-R discs at low (4x) speed. I've read through much of these forums trying to fix my DVD-coaster problem. I've learned a lot, but now my family misses me and I miss them, and my DVDs are still not watchable.
My questions are then:
1. Is there any piece of the puzzle I'm missing, because my disc plays fine on my Mac but not on my stand-alone DVD player - it plays fine for about 1/3 of the movie and then skips and chokes. This means the DVD burned fine, but cannot be read well enough by the DVD player correct? (Due to whatever... I dunno.)
2. I've only have one DVD player, a few-years-old Toshiba, so I wonder on what percent of DVD players will this DVD work? Can I send a copy of this DVD to my friends who all presumably have different DVD players? Is there a list of DVD players that work better than others? Any sure things?
The other wrench in this is that a year back I burned some DVDs a similar way (using the same computer, but Staples-brand DVDs) and some worked fine and others didn't of the same project.
3. Is there any sense in taking the time to re-burn the same disc image onto the same brand disc in hopes that the magic fairies (who I now know are really in charge here) will be good to me, and I'll get a playable disc?
Thanks,
Garrett

… you do all recommendations, read here on the board…
but…
my first dvd-burner war a Pioneer102 (101?), which exactly failed to burn dvds 10 days after end of 2y warrenty… it started with symptoms you're discribing: dvd plays fine on same drive, but stutter/stop after a few minutes on other, standalone players… after a few weeks, DVDs were complete unseen on external drives... then, my audioCD starts to show same symptoms…
bought a new burner - now, everything's fine....
needed to re-burn 2 projects, which I did with burner v1…

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