Any Ideas Why This DVD Won't Work?????????

I have posted this puzzler in several other forums.
I have found a DVD-R that I made in my eMac last year and I can’t get it to work.
I can’t remember how I made it or with what application! I cannot even remember what is on it (whether it was slides or video).
In a normal DVD player all that appears is a large close-up of a face.
Whether it is a still photo or a video frame I cannot tell.
I have pressed all the controls I can think of but I can't get the face to move or change etc.
HOWEVER, when I put the DVD in my eMac and double-click it I get the usual window with two files. One is “Video RM” and the other is “Video TS” but both of them are EMPTY and there is nothing else to be found.
Now here is the really strange part. When I open “Get Info” I get the following details:-
Kind: Volume
Format: Mac OS Extended
Capacity: 3.71GB
Available: Zero KB
Used: 3.71GB on disk (3,978,659,840 bytes)
So obviously there is something on it in spite of the apparently empty RM and TS folders!
Can anyone suggest how I can play it ?
Ian.

Thanks Patrick - I had already tried it and nothing had happened.
I had actually written as much to you when I decided to give it another try before posting my reply.
Guess what? This time it worked!!!!
I don't know what I did differently or why the TS folder appears empty.
Thank you for spurring me on to try again.
Ian.

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