How to burn MPEGs on a CD-RW Drive to play on DVD Player

[zacattack]

I am new to most issues concerning DVD players and their operations. I just purchased an Insignia (model # NS-DRVCR) DVD-VCR Recorder Player. My PC is a Compaq Presario 5320US with a CD-RW Drive, DVD-ROM Drive and I have successfully recorded JPEGs on a CD-R off of the CD-RW Drive and they play alright on the DVD player. Some of the JPEGs I cannot get to play and I get a message "cannot open file" I do wonder exactly why that is? My main question is why I cannot get the MPEGs to play after being recorded on the CD-R. Is there any free software available off the WEB that may help me be able to record these files into a format that my home DVD player can recognize and play? I now use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.1 to make my CD-Rs to play on the home DVD player. Thank you for any help that you can give me on this subject.

[theewizard]

the dvd player does not play mpeg files directly, it will play VCD that contain files that used to be mpeg1 before being authored ( turned into ) VCD files

you need some softare ( free...see links on this site ) that will take your mpegs and make VCD files, that you can burn on CD to create the 'Video CD' or SVCD

VCD use mpg files at 352*240 resolution

SVCD uses ( 480*480) i think

is the links on the left top under what is ?

DVD , SVCD, VCD

for complete explanations