Disk Image Burn Won't Load DVD Player

Created a disk image in iDVD.
Opened the image and testing its functionality. All is well.
Go into Disk Utility. Select the image and burn.
Resulting disk doesn't not signal DVD Player to launch and play upon mounting.
I can manually open DVD Player and choose open DVD media and the disk plays as expected. What am I missing here.
Thanks in advance...

Once you have the disk image file on your desktop, click on it once to mount it.
Then open the DVD Player application and the image file should start playing.
The mounted disk image file does not automatically open DVD Player.

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