Being a newbie, I followed the all in one classical conversion guide on this site to make my LOTR .avi file into a VCD I could play on my stand alone DVD player. My .mpg files played great on the computer. But, everytime I burned to disk it would stutter, jerk, play 10 secs & shut off. I tried different settings, different media, different burn speeds, everything. After 40 hours of persistence and wasted time, I learned my .avi file is DivX. See converting DivX guide.

Using the MPEG tools in TMPGEnc to split the fully encoded 3 hr long movie was my problem. This caused VCDEasy to log messages like "autopadding added x bytes" or "unaligned packets".

If you have used these tools and had this problem, try encoding the movie 1 cd worth at a time using the source settings on TMPGEnc. Using the mpeg tools to split your movie after its encoded may be your problem, it was certainly mine. :)