If you have trouble playing mpg1 vbr on an apex 1500 (don't know of other apex models), specially at 352x480 {kvcd.net 's templates}, or 352x240, try demuxing your files and remuxing with bbmpg 1.8 as SVCD, burn with your burning app {i use vcdeasy and nero}, and play.
My recent encodes have not skipped since. Thanx again bman.


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