When watching burned DVD, footage is choppy/shaky

I just burned a 40 minute long clip made through Final Cut Express to a DVD. When I watch the movie file itself on the computer, it plays normally like it should be. But, after I burn it onto a DVD through iDVD and watch it on a TV, the footage is choppy during active scenes (ex. when people are dancing) and during freeze frames, it actually shakes instead of freezing. I have to show this video by Tuesday so I am in a bit of a rush to get this thing finished..
The movie file itself is compressed as "DV/DVCPRO-NTSC", exported using Quicktime conversion in Final Cut Express. I've burned two disks, one set as high quality and on widescreen, the other on high performance and on standard; both have the same results. How can I fix this? I need the footage to play smoothly and correctly, like it should be playing... anyone know? I need to get this fixed ASAP...
This Mac is running on Tiger 10.4.11 with a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 2GB RAM with a 233GB Hard Drive with an available space of 12GB. I am burning to a Sony DVD-R disk which has enough space for what I am trying to burn.
Thanks.

Hi
a. < Hard Drive with an available space of 12GB > If this is the Main hard disk
the free space is way to low ! ! should be minimum 25Gb for iDVD to work as intended
b. In iDVD 1-6 You can't set burn speed - it read from DVD discs and x16 is way
to high to get an usable result. (In iDVD08 this can be set to x1)
Way around:
• In iDVD save as DiskImage (File menu and down)
TEST this with Apple DVD-player.
• If it doesn't play OK try to use another encoder
• I use Best Performance - avoids the Best Quality though I don't think it is
(In iDVD08 there is Pro Quality - I love it.)
• Burn this to a DVD WITH Apple Disk Util tool where You can set burn speed
or use Roxio Toast™ My favourite way - so easy.
I use Verbatim
I use only DVD-R (No +R or +/-RW)
Yours Bengt W

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