What video format do portable DVD players play?

I'M DESPERATE!!!! I NEED TO TRANSFORM A VIDEO FROM MAC TO PC FORMAT?

• I have a video of about 3 min long on quicktime format for mac. Now, I later used iDVD to include a menu and I burned it to a DVD. But when I play the dvd in a dvd player the sound seems to be okay, though the imagine is in black and white and it bounces up and down the screen. I mean, it's incomprehensible. The thing is, when I play the dvd on a mac computer, everything is perfect, it even opens the video with the dvd player application, so there shouldn't be any difference. But it doesn't work with the machine. A friend of mine told me it's because dvd players can't read a dvd with a mac format, so I need a way to transform the video from quicktime to another format that can be read by a pc so I can burn the disc there. I'M ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!! I'LL PICK BEST ANSWER!!! Thanks!

• Answer:

  Hey Lucy, there should be no problem playing back a DVD created in iDVD in any DVD player, stand alone unit or windows based software player. On a Mac you can export the video from inside Quicktime (File > Export from Quicktime player menu-you will need the Pro edition to do this) to an .AVI format and try using that file. There is no "Mac DVD format," video DVD's are UMD (Universal Media Disc) but it could be the DVD media you are burning to. Try using DVD+R and avoid DVD-R media. Hope this helps, Jason