Cannot Play SVCD's -- Don't Understand Why?

[rkr1958]

I just recently purchased a Toshiba SD 2800 which plays VCD's created on CD-Rs & CD-RWs. I confirmed this by creating a VCD with TMPEG & burning to a CD-R with NERO. It played well and looked o.k. given the quality of a VCD. When I encode and try to play a SVCD (MPEG-2 format) the player doesn't recognize the disk. This is consistent with the reviews that I've read on this player so I wasn't surprised. My questions are:
1) Since the player can read CD-Rs & CD-RWs and can play commerical DVD why won't it recognize and play MPEG-2 files burned to CD-Rs or CD-RWs?
2) Is there anyway that I can get Nero to create a mini-DVD (i.e., burn DVD MPEG-2 quality to CD-R). The only options I have are VCD or SVCD since I don't have a DVD-writer?
3) Is the directory stucture created by Nero different for DVDs and VCDs?
4) If I could make a mini-DVD on CD-R with Nero would my player likely play it?

[Gargoyle]

According to the DVD Payers section, the 2800 doesn't play SVCDs - but you can try XVCD; supposedly supports up to 5000KB bitrate.

[man_friday]

Your player appears to be working as designed. It doesn't play SVCD. You could try the header trick where you encode as SVCD but put a VCD header on the front to fool player. This works with Panasonic and some Sony playes. Search these pages for the how to