DVD burning advice

I am very frustrated because every DVD I burn has audio and sometimes
video skips when played back in my player. I have tried many things to
no avail. Here is the last thing I tried.

- Confirmed consistent resolution, bitrate, etc. of all the MPEG files
using avidemux.
- Created a brand new project in QDVDAuthor (Qt based GUI frontend for
dvdauthor).
- Built the DVD files from QDVDAuthor ending with the creation of the ISO
file (no DVD burn).
- Opened the .VOB files from the hard drive and played them in MPlayer.
No skips.
- Mounted the ISO file on loopback and played the .VOB file from the ISO
on the hard drive in MPlayer. No skips.
- Burned the ISO from K3b (it used growisofs to do the burn).
- Played the DVD in my second DVD-ROM drive in the computer. No skips.
- Put the DVD in the player in the living room. Skips. In the exact same
places as before!

Now, the biggest potential hole I see is that, so far, all of my efforts
have been writing to DVD-RW. I did not want to use up DVD-Rs until I got
it right. Maybe my DVD player "doesn't like" DVD-RW completely.

Ignoring that potential chasm, here is what I am going to do as I leave
for work. I will burn the DVD-RW with cdrecord from the command line, at
speed=1. My wife can test it when the burn is done.

So, does anyone have any hints why the burned DVD will not play properly?
Maybe my player is just lame. It is only about 3 months old but it could
still be lame. Problem is this DVD is to be copied and distributed to
about 60+ people. If it doesn't work in my player, how can I have
confidence it will work in anyone elses?

Any advise from multimedia guys is appreciated.

Alan

PS The entire DVD creation from video capture from the camcorder to DVD
burn has been done on Linux. Therefore, this thread is on topic! ;^)
IMO.
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