If you are going to be burning it to cd, then it will become a vcd/svcd. If you burnt it as svcd, not all dvd players can play them. Also, not all dvd players can play RW disks be they cd or dvd. Also some dvd players are specific to dvd+ or dvd- (though most newer ones will play both.)
Having a decent burner program is a good start. For tips about burning videos, the best section to see about that is
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-tricks/ where it's been discussed many times.