(S)VCD Menuing and standalone players

[Murex]

Is it possible to get this to work at all with a standalone player? I have been trying and to no avail I can not get it to work. I have had limited sucess with menuing in a plain VCD .. but none at all with SVCDs ..

Quick rundown of my setup:
Dual Pentium II 333
512MB RAM
Windows XP professional
HP 9150i 8x CDrw
Nero 5.5.6.4
Apex AD-600a standalone player

the details of my menuing experience with VCD vs SVCD:

when I am doing a menu with VCD it will load up and display the menu properly, but the first and second tracks seem to be corrupted and will not play; I also seem to not be able to select any of the tracks from the menu (e.g. pressing #3 on my remote does not bring up track 3) - others work fine there after.

with a SVCD it never loads - however the Apex will display the track #'s .. if I do a SVCD w/o a menu - it loads fine.

could there be a problem with the way Nero is buring the header or TOC on the CD?

Side note: I am converting the video files using the Nero SVCD/MPEG2 plugin I bought.
Also, I had problems with my Apex when I bought and had to send it in for repair so they flashed the BIOS to lock out the loophole menu - could there be a bug in the BIOS version they loaded to cause an invalid read of the header/TOC on SVCDs?

any information would be helpful.

[Vejita-sama]

I've got an Apex AD600A and pretty much only make xSVCD these days and the menus work fine. The problem is most likely Nero (which sucks as far as x(S)VCDs go).

Try making menus with TSCV. You can d/load the newest verison at http://www.doom9.org and find a good guide for using it at:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/

TSCV can make still menus, motion menus, add intro MPEGs, etc. etc. Very nice. It's really not that hard to use, but then it's not that easier either Just read the guides and play with it some.

TSCV will generate a bin/cue file (image) that you can then burn with several programs. DO NOT try to burn the bin file w/ NERO (again Nero doesn't work for this).

I'd recommend using CDRDAO (freeware dos program) and it's GUI "XDuplicator" or burning from w/in VCD Easy. Doom9 has these programs too. Other choices are fireburner or CDRWin.

[Murex]

Most of the time for buring bin/cue (images) I use Paddus Disc Juggler, do you have any experience with this?