Help me set some things straight please.

[Nuse]

Ok i understand that you have to make svcds dvd compliant in order to burn them and from what i've soaked up from reading the forums all i have to do is change the resolution to something compliant(352x240 for instance) and change the audio from 41hz to 48hz. Now after further reading i discovered that you don't even have to change the resolution of an svcd, but rather patch it using certain programs like Dvdpatcher. Now i wish i would have discovered this patching method(or rather, understood it at first glance) because i just got through converting two svcds that were in 480x480 video format to 720x480 dvd compliant using Tmpgenc and it took about an hour and a half each conversion. What i want to know is should i use the patching method from now on? And after the patch will tmpgenc dvd author read it as dvd compliant? Thank you in advance for answering.

[Roderz]

The patching method works for me and yes tmpgenc dvd author will read it as a dvd compliant file.
Main thing is make sure your stanalone dvd player can play it, if it won't play std svcd disc's it might not play the dvd. (have yet to test this on a friends dvd player that won't play svcd)
Also used patcher to change fps of svcd's so I can include PAL + NTSC on same dvd!
On the 3 machine I have this trick works quite well (get a quick flicker at beginning of film - as it reverts back to correct res, fps)

[bugster]

Have you tried SVCD2DVDMPG ?

[Nuse]

Hmm, so patching is the popular method i see. I have an apex-ad500w and it plays everything, and thens some so i think this method would be best. Looks like i wasted my time making it fully compliant(Except now it will play on my brother's samsung which doesn't support svcd, right?).Bugster, i haven't tried svcd2dvdmpg because it involved patching, changing the header to 352 to make it compliant. I didn't wanna waste a dvd-r not knowing what it would produce, so i took the long route.