Making a Video & Data DVD

This is probably a dumb question but I'd like to author a DVD with video files that can play in a standard DVD player but also include a folder of data (photos) that can be drug onto a computer desktop. Is this possible?
iMac G4 (flat panel) Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You could do this by simply setting the DVD ROM content path to a folder on your mac, inside which would need to be another folder which contains the photos.
Click on the disc icon in the outline view and look in the property inspector under the general tab at the bottom, check the DVD-ROM box and browse for the folder which contains the folder you want.
DVDSP will include the contents of the folder you specify on the final disc - if you point it to the 'inner' folder then DVDSP will take the content and place it at the root level of the disc, leaving you with a load of images and a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder. For this reason, you point it to the 'outer' folder and keep the root of the disc tidy!
If you wish to use DVD@ccess then computers can launch the default viewer for the images - which is what David is suggesting. The only caution I would add is that it is tricky to get DVD@ccess working on PCs (OK on Macs). It does work, but not on all machines and with all DVD playback software.

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