I'm new with video, need help understanding Nero

[muskie]

I have done audio cd burning in Nero and Love it. I am now stepping up to video. I know zero about it. I have gone to the Nero section here and followed the steps listed. It took 5 hrs. for Nero to encode a 72:31:26 min. avi file so I could burn it. I burned it in vcd format. I had no problum viewing it in my dvd, however it turned out dark and blockie. What did I do wrong and how do I get it encoded faster? Can anyone help me? :-?

[shochan]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/convert.htm go there and use tmpge, it is freeware and should be faster. I know it will look alot better.

[muskie]

Thank's Shochan for your help. I will try that. I tried burning an svcd on nero but it says I need an mpeg 2 codec. I there one in this program?