DVD PLAYER in MAC OS X v.10.4.8

Hi, my friend recently burned a dvd for me with a home video on it. I know this is DVD Player and not iDVD but, I couldn't find a forum for that specific program so I thought someone here could help me. The Dvd will play in my playstation 2, but when I try playing it with DVD Player on my MAC it won't? There's no menu's or anything so it should just start playing, but it doesn't. I tried hitting menu, title, and stop and then play again and doesn't get passed the grey screen. Can anyone help me get this to work in DVD player on my MAC?

it's a DVD+R media disc. In Finder I can see the
files on the disc, there's a folder Audio_TS and
VIdeo_TS. There's .VOB, .IFO, .BUP files in the
Video_TS folder and there are no files in the
Audio_TS folder.
The folders and files sound correct (the Audio_TS folder should be empty).
Try launching Apple's DVD Player application in the Application Folder. It should give you the option to open a DVD (I think that's what the new version of Player says - the old version used to say to open the VIDEO_TS Folder)

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