New at creating VCDs

[Demily]

I am very new at this process and am having some difficulties. First of all, I am using an RCA 5220P DVD player. It does not work well with many types of cds. The compatibility pages you have show that it will work with blue layered CDRs and Siler layered CDRWs. I have been using silver layered CDRWs and have found that it takes them sometimes and other times it will not. I attempted to find blue layered CDRs and had no luck. Of course, Ihave a real problem telling the color green from blue, so I guess that doesn't help. Do you have an idea of what manufacturers use blue layered CDRs?
I have also downloaded Sefy's templates for TMPGEnc and am having problems with blockiness on a finished VCD. What can I do to improve that?

[IOU]

Well you can save a few bucks by buying cheaper CDR's (I use the cheapest availible have no problems) then with the money you save buy a 99.00 APEX dvd player (plays a ton of formats) and then take your avi movie split it with virtual dub then burn with nero (nero will do the encoding for you) ?'s hit me on icq sometime 249140