Cannot play SVCDs at all

[jeffeatworld]

Hey people, wonder if you can help.

I have 3 converted MPG's in SVCD format. The first plays fine in Windows Media player but the other two dont, it says "Unsupported Forma". I have tried a load of other programs but they have the same thing.

The only program that remotely played them was PowerDVD, and that was very jumpy! Please help! I'm running Win98, AMD-500 with 256mb RAM, I have tried closing everything else to no avail.

I know the files are not corrupted as I sent a friend a 20mb sample and it worked fine on his.

Is it possible that I can burn these to CD and then watch them on an external player or through my PC player, or is my PC just too crap?

Any help would be great.

Cheers

[tenders]

my guess would be you are missing the proper codec. once they are in mpeg format you can burn them on cdr's with vcdeasy.

"your pc crap", mine is worse,but it does all the jobs i ask it to do just fine

[jeffeatworld]

Thanks. How come the file for CD works fine then? Its weird. I can only play it in PowerDVD but its really slow. I know for a fact it works as a friend has played it fine on their PC.

Where can I get Codecs from - i already have DivX and Cinamatography thing?

[tenders]

look for "nemo" in the tool section

[jeffeatworld]

Thanks, I appreciate the help. Its so frustrating! I will download that and give it a try. The film in questiion is Spiderman, which in the UK is still in Cinimas.

[jeffeatworld]

Ok, I downloaded that NIMO thing, and Windows Media Player says teh same thing, but it did say "Pins not Correct" or similar. I am now trying MPG Corrector to see it that solves it.

Any ideas of what the Pins Aligned error was?

[jeffeatworld]

Tried correcting the problem with MPG Corrector and it crashed Windows Player (Illegal Operation) D'oh! Any ideas?