Viewing a disk image created in iDVD6

After succesfully creating and burning a DVD project, and confirming it works on my TV/DVD player, I decided to make a disk image of the file for convenience of easily burning more copies later. The iDVD6 help page says "you can play it on your computer by double-clicking the disc image icon. You can move the disc image to another computer or hard disk, but you cannot edit it. When you're ready to burn the disc image to a DVD, use Disk Utility in Mac OS X."
I cannot play it by double-clicking (just opens folders named "AUDIO_TS" and "VIDEO_TS" wich contain files that are .ifo, .vob, etc). I used disk utility to burn a dvd from the image and it creates the same thing when read on the computer. TV/DVD player cannot read it at all.
Has anyone succesfully used the disk image feature in iDVD?
Thanks for any help you may be able to give.

Nancy,
Welcome to the Apple Support Forums.
When you have created a disk image of a DVD on your hard drive, double-click the image file to mount the DVD on your desktop. Then, use Apple's DVD Player application (in your Applications folder) to open the VIDEO_TS folder on that mounted image for playing.
See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006 and http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724 for information on using Disk Utility to burn the disk image to writable media.
If you don't follow the intructions properly, you will end up creating a DVD disc in the Mac OS Extended format rather than the UDF format needed to play it back on settop DVD players.

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