VCD Playback ... What am I doing wrong ?¿?

[DvdM]

here's my problem ...
2 Weeks ago, I bought a DVD Standalone player, to play (DaH) DVD's and more importantly, to play VCD's.
I never made a VCD before, so that's when I went searching for How To's ... That's how I ended up here
So, I started to encode my .avi files to mpeg1 using TMPGEnc ... all so far so good. Since I live in Europe, I had to make a VCD in PAL format, so I set the TMPGEnc configuration to;
Video:
1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
352 x 288 pixels
25 frames/second
Audio:
224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
Next, I used VideoCD Easy to burn the VCD, but when I put it in my DVD Player, it keeps saying; "Invalid Entry" ... Maybe I did something wrong, so I encoded it again, and this time, burned it with Nero 5.5 ... But there was no change at all ...
The specs of my DVD Player;
- It can play both PAL and NTSC
- Compatible disc formats; DVD and CD-DA
- Plays (should play???) DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 and VCD
Video Decoder; MPEG-2
Video Digital-Analog-Converter; 10 bit
Audio Decoder; MPEG
Audio Digital-Analog-Converter; 24 bit
I have NO idea what I'm doing wrong at all, so if ANYBODY could help me outta this mess, that would be great ... Most of all because I can already throw away about 12 CD-R's
Does the Video Decoder (MPEG-2) mean I can simply burn a mpeg-2 on a disc and play ??? Because I tried that, and this time, my DVD Player recognised the CD-R, but it wouldn't play do I need to use another CD-Format ??? The standard VCD's that have been written, contain these files;
CDI;
*CDI_IMAG.RTF
*CDI_TEXT.FNT
*CDI_VCD.APP
*CDI_VCD.CFG
EXT;
-
MPEGAV;
*AVSEQ01.DAT
SEGMENT;
-
VCD;
*ENTRIES.VCD
*INFO.VCD

So ... Am I doing something really wrong here ... or is it such a bad DVD Player, and do you suggest I get another (better?¿?) one ?
Thnx anyway ...

[resnullius]

have you checked for your dvd player in the list(dvd players compatibility list on the left side)?
you might want to try cd-rws they are often more compatible. you might want to try to do a small vcd compressed through nero just to see if that will work(less chances of making mistakes)

[DvdM]

yeah, I checked the list, but my player isn´t in the list I´ve got a medion btw ... it´s a german player. maybe the fact that it isn´t in the list says enough huh ... thnx anywayz for the tips resnullius, I´ll buy some CD-RW´s first thing in the morning I´ll also try to do a small vcd compressed through nero ... oh ... thing I haven´t mentioned ... I also tried to burn the VCD PAL Sample on the site ... same effect