I used a couple of templates found here in the Tools section with TMPGE and when it seems to be finished encoding, down to 0 time left, it just sits there and doesn't give me any kind of dialouge box saying it is complete. The elapsed timer keeps counting like it is still working, but I can let it go 20 minutes after the completion clock hits 0 and it still hangs.

I can hit the abort encoding button to stop the process but then my system hangs. The encoding seems to work, but it sure is a pain having to reboot after every encode.

When the process is complete am I supposed to get a finished dialouge box? What am I doing wrong?

Kwag, BTW if you read this your template works great !! As good quality as the SVCD's I burned, more fits on the CD, AND you don't need to do the painful SVCD encoding !!!! Thanks for that bit of knowledge !