Pete,
when you place a DVD or Blu-Ray disc into your player, it's not just a shiny round object. On that DVD, for instance, it actually has 2 folders burned onto it, an Audio folder, and a Video folder, and it is those 2 folders that your player opens and reads, thereby playing the content.
For DVD, the Video folder contains the movie files, the menu, subtitles, etc, all the information to play the movie.
Oddly enough the Audio folder is always empty, but it is needed because many DVD players will fail to play the movie without it, so it must serve some purpose, we don't really need to know, though.
For a Blu-Ray disc, there are also 2 folders on that shiny object, a BDMV folder, again containing all the movie files and subtitles, menu, etc, for the player to read.
The second folder is the Certificate folder, from my brief research, is often, but not always empty, but is associated with copyright protection, perhaps, another issue noteworthy but not important to creating your own Blu-Ray disc.
So, when you see, BURN TO A FOLDER, that is what is meant.
Folks often get better playing discs when burning to a folder, rather than directly onto a disc. This route, however forces you to use a second disc-burning software capable of putting those folders onto the disc, as PowerDirector can CREATE a folder structure, but is not designed to then BURN that, so I use Cyberlink Power2Go, but there are any number of free and pay-for softwares that will do that.
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