SVCD From DVD Plays Inconsistently ?

[twosocks]

I made 2 SVCD's from one of our childrens DVD's. They were burned on Memorex CDRW's at 4X and have played fine the first 3 or 4 times on our $60 Norcent DVD player. Now, all of a sudden, they play terrible. The picture will freeze for seconds, then start playing again. The video will get blocky for seconds at a time. Why would they play fine and then all of a sudden, not play at all? DVD's play fine and I can play other SVCD's or VCD's with no problem. I used OSEx, Missing Mpeg Tools & Toast (to burn the image files). Should I try other media?

[twosocks]

Additional Information:

When I play the 2 SVCD's on the MAC, with VLC, both will eventually give me error messages like "could not read sector XXXX"

I made 2 SVCD's from one of our childrens DVD's. They were burned on Memorex CDRW's at 4X and have played fine the first 3 or 4 times on our $60 Norcent DVD player. Now, all of a sudden, they play terrible. The picture will freeze for seconds, then start playing again. The video will get blocky for seconds at a time. Why would they play fine and then all of a sudden, not play at all? DVD's play fine and I can play other SVCD's or VCD's with no problem. I used OSEx, Missing Mpeg Tools & Toast (to burn the image files). Should I try other media?

If you have pets in your house, it could be pet hairs or dust that have fallen on the lens. You want to check that out but if it plays DVD's fine then don't bother.

[galactica]

smudges, dirt, fingerprints, etc

one way to test, play them in your comptuer. if they have work you are leaning towards your $60 dollar player! now.

try cleaning the disks, it wouldnt hurt anyhow