Testing Scenarist Output (Mux)

[Scubasteve2365]

I'm looking for a little clarification.

I'm making my first disc with Scenarist, unfortunately I don't have unlimited access to the software, and am instead being allowed to use it a nearby facility by knowing someone that works there. When I do have access I don't want to bother those who have busy projects for them to "teach" me things.

To the best of my knowledge the version is at least 5.0, if not higher.

I've successfully created (muxed) both a large disc that is my project and a very small (300MB) test disc so that I don't have to wait for it to remux everytime I try a new setting.

At first I couldn't play the output at all. I choose to do disc folders, thinking Total Media Theater or Corel WinDVD would play it, and both (along with Nero9) reported back "unsupported Media" or "Invalid Media". I made sure my CPS settings were set to unencrypted. I also, made sure that project file (which wasn't XML leading me to believe this is at least version 5.0 software) had the copy permission flag set to 0.

After not being able to playback the resulting files, I decided to mux it again, but this time as a disc image, using the BD-RE setting. This created an image folder in the output directory as well as a Mux folder that contained a BD-RE directory holding the standard BDMV disc structure. Like before, I was unable to playback the output from the file structure, however when I mounted the disc image file, I was able to play the file back and it worked as it should have.

I'm presuming I can just burn that image file, using ImgBurn or other software and the disc will work fine in a PS3 and stand alone players, but I'm rather concerned as to why the disc folders themselves won't play. This makes me think I have a setting wrong somewhere.

In Total Media Theater I can playback Blu-ray Folders on a disc of a ripped commerical Blu-ray. Why is my scenarist output not the same?