[b]problem playing a svcd file downloaded off of a ftp serve

[yeti2k2]

hi,
this may sound very stupid but i downloaded a movie a off of a ftp server and it was a svcd and the format is in *.mpg. however, i cannot get this file to play at all. I have windows media player 8.0 and my OS is Win XP professional. I also tried downloading all of the divx codecs (3.11, 4, and 5). When i try to play the file in win media player, it tries to download the codec and says that the file is unsupported or that the codec cant be reached.
I also downloaded some *.rar files and extracted them using winrar and put the cue and bin file together using vcdgear to create another *.mpg file but i get the same problem with this too. When I try to use TMPGEnc to open the file to convert it to a normal *.mpg it wont bother to open it either as it says that it is unsupported.
If u have any solution to why this is happening or have had this happen to you, I would greatly appreciate any help at all or even any suggestion.

[ZAP!!]

If they are SVCD and not VCD then you will need an MPEG2 decoder like PowerDVD. Media Player won't play MPEG2 without it. There are some links in the tools section for some free ones but I don't know how well they work.

There is also a fix for TMPGEnc that will let you open MPEG2 files.

Check the "Tools" section for these downloads.

[yeti2k2]

do you know the name of the codec that will allow tgmpenc to open the svcds?

[ZAP!!]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/download/m2v_vfp-0.4.6.zip

Will let you open MPEG2 files in TMPGEnc.

[Truman]

update
http://e3lt11.ocv.ne.jp/mpeg2/

[yeti2k2]

ok now this is freaky, after i installed and ran powerdvd, windows media player wil play the files but they shake like crazy. yet powerdvd will not open these files. Any suggestions on how to stop the shaking?
Thanx a lot for any help.

[ZAP!!]

The resolution is probably messed up, also. I don't have a fix for the shaking. Never seen that before. Maybe revert your codecs back to original. I have seen a utility that can do that but I don't where it is. Maybe www.doom9.org

[Lost_Soul]

Try downloading a Mpeg2 codec http://www.elecard.com/products/mpeg2decoder.shtml unzip it and click the file called register then try your movie it should work.