Last week, I tried to play an XSVCD (?) with the following settings:
video: MPEG-2, 720x288, progressive, 4:3 ratio, 25 fps, 2500, CBR 2500 kbps;
audio: MPEG-1 layer II, joint stereo, 224 kbps, 44 kHz.
The player showed this XSVCD (yes, it did!) in the upper half of the TV screen (with wrong aspect ration, of course). And the playback was jerky.

My idea was to make the DVD player play a widescreen movie in MPEG-2. Of course, I could reduce the horisontal resolution to 480 to make it SVCD compliant, but I thought that the movie is not interlaced, so I don't need all 576 lines of a frame, only the 288 lines of one field. And I also wanted to keep the horizontal resolution possible in DivX movies: 720. Does anyone know what is the best way to put a widescreen movie onto CD-R's playable on a standalone DVD player? Did I need to set the aspect ration to 16:9 while converting to MPEG-2?