I have a couple of movies I encoded with TMPGnc . Made them into xvcd and all I changed was the bit rate. Not a high bitrate somewhere between 1800 and 1900. On playback in my dvd player which is an apex 660 once in awile the movie goes really fast then it is ok for awhile then it goes really fast again. This usually lasts a few seconds. Sure screws up a good movie. I use nero to burn with. Any ideas would really be a big help. I almost forgot when I make an svd of the same movie I have no problem during playback. I would rather just make the xvcd instead of the svcd. I hear apex660 can play about anything so I really don't know what the problem is.