Creating and burning AUDIO_TS folder

I see in Chad Perkins Lynda.com training series that some older DVD players need a Audio_TS folder to play correctly. I created a project, saved it to disk DVD format then burned it to DVD. I gave a copy to a friend that has an older DVD player and it will not play (it did play OK on his computer.) I then created a Video_TS folder in the same folder as the Video_TS folder then tried to burn it to DVD using Nero 9. When I did, I got an error message that it could not burn the Video_TS folder because it was empty. It appears that I need to have at least one file in the folder. Any suggestions as to what to put in it that would not affect the playing of the video?
Thank you.

the_wine_snob wrote:
 The AUDIO_TS is a leftover from the now mostly extinct DVD-Audio format. Still, there are reports of older players not recognizing a DVD-Video, unless that empty folder is there. 
Hunt
Er, not quite.
The early players that require AUDIO_TS to be present were built before DVD-Audio specs were finalized in the main,.
It's shoddy formware writing that causes this, as AUDIO_TS is not recognized by a Video-Only player.
Only an Audio capable player can use them though.
BTW - DVDA is far from dead where I am sitting, with (so far) about £40K worth on my books for 2010 already.
It's a shame it never got bigger as the sound quality is truly superb. Far superior to that on DVD-Video.
Still - someone, somewhere decioded that even with a muisc title, the video is the most important part, hence why we see live shows encoded to the dreadful Dolby Digital. It smears the transients to hell & gone, sounds like crap & generally sounds as if there is a sack over each speaker.
The jump from 16 to 24 bit audio is clearly audible to even my bank manager - and don't even start me on MP3.
A well authored DVD-A disc will contain the high res audio in the Audio_TS folder, but - so the discs will play on all players, not just audio-capable ones - sensible houses add a Video_TS too.
Just my 0.02 worth.

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