How does a DVD Player recognize/play a DVD?

I'm wondering, does a DVD Player 'look' for the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders?
I'm wondering because I found a backup of an old-old DVD I made a few years back. I just have the Audio/Video_TS folders. If I burned these to a DVD in the root folder, would my DVD player be able to read it? Or do programs like DVD Studio Pro burn some sort of 'invisible' data to the DVD-R which a DVD Player 'looks' for?

Mac OS X's basic drag-and-drop burning (from the Finder) creates a hybrid HFS+/ISO-9660 disc. You can try creating a DVD Master image file with Disk Utility and then putting the files on that disk image. Disk Utility should create this type of image file as a UDF disc. I'm not in front of a Mac right now to give more detailed instructions, or to even tell if this will work.
An easier solution might be to download DiscBlaze which will allow you 5 burns before you have to register. It can burn a UDF disc.

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