Need help tricking my DVD player (SVCDs)

[Drunken Sailor]

Hi, I'm a first time poster. What I'm trying to do is use the advice at this page to "trick" my player into playing SVCDs (while thinking they are VCDs). My standalone DVD player is a Toshiba SD-4205 (complete with 5 disc changer ). I'm inclined to think this would work because both older and newer models of this player support SVCDs, but this one does not.

I'm met with problems though. The retitling of the MPEG2s to MPEG1s went okay (as far as I know), but my first burn coastered using EZCD. I then tried VCDEasy. When I try the disc in my DVD player, I get audio but no video. Am I doing something wrong, or is this workaround just not going to work for me? And if it's not, could someone please point me in the best way to convert SVCD->VCD (in terms of retaining quality)? Thanks in advance.

[Drunken Sailor]

If anyone could help, it would really be appreciated.

[Truman]

Simply demux the MPEG-2 and remux as MPEG-1 Video-CD(non-standard). Your player may play that XVCD or not. If it does not work, you can reencode to MPEG-1, it is time consuming and you will loose quality too.

[Chaoji3791]

If your DVD player is SUPPOSED to play SVCDs and doesn't, I would try contacting Toshiba and asking them for a firmware upgrade rather than trying to "trick" your player. If you are encoding MPEG-2 video to the correct specs and burning it using a proper SVCD burning program then I just can't see what else could be going wrong. Have you tried using other encoding/authoring programs, like TMPGEnc and Nero?

C h a o j i