My player can handle miniDvd. I got that from this site's DVD Players compatability list. It also shows that my player can handle a max of 5100 kb/s for XVCD and a max of 5700 kb/s for XSVCD. The mpeg2 that I'm making is done with 2-pass VBR with a min of 2000, avg of 5000, & max of 8000. At higher motion scenes, the audio starts skipping. That's why I need my DVD Player to recognize my mpeg2 as a DVD, and not a XSVCD, hence a miniDVD. If I lower the max bitrate to XSVCD's upper at 5700 kb/s, I might as well go with a CBR of 5000 something kb/s; my VBR does me no good. Also, I need this to be an xDvd because I do not want to upsize my resolution from 640x480 to full D1 720x480. The video plays smoothly; it's the audio that skips at higher motion scenes. I used DVD Patcher to change the header to fool DVDAuthorGui that I had a DVD compliant m2v. After it authored, I used ImgTool Classic to create the .iso, and DVDDecrypter to burn it. It burned and the player recognized it as a DVD, but you cant hear anything, the video is choppy, there is one video where you can see, and another is starting to the right (almost dual-pane), and there is this big ugly pink box that covers more than the bottom half of the screen. Something went wrong, but I don't know what. I did choose Center Custom Size for the Video Arrange Method for TMPGEnc to get "widescreen." I've tested this before, and it gives the "widescreen" look. Oh, also, I chose mpeg2 svcd (vbr) for my video stream for TMPGEnc. Is this where I messed up? Should I have done mpeg2 program vbr for the stream? Is there anything I can do to get what I want? Should I use different programs to author this xDvd.