Saved as Disk Image to test it - now what??

Hi all,
I have created a DVD with just the drop zones filled, and a slideshow . All plays well within iDVD. But I wanted to test it, and saved it as a Disk Image. However, there is nothing on the Disk Image that will allow me to play it at all.
I want to burn it for someone who has a DVD player and a DVD player in their computer.
It is my first DVD (if you can't tell!) and I don't understand how to take it from Disk Image (or not, perhaps just burn it from within iDVD? What works? What is more reliable?
HELP!

HOW does the Disk Image start the playing of the DVD?
It doesn't!
A disk image is just an 'image' of a DVD you can burn. You can double-click on the image to mount it on your desktop and then use Apple's DVD Player application to play the VIDEO_TS folder in the mounted disk image.
Creating a disk image from iDVD and then using Apple's Disk Utility or Roxio's Toast to actually burn the disk image to writable is the ONLY way to control your burn speed when creating DVDs. Burn at 4x or lower.
Disk images are also very useful when you want to create many copies of the same disc.
F Shippey

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