Come on, tell me how blindingly obvious the solution to this problem is. I need to be humiliated.

Basically, I've been making SVCDs for a while now using Pinnoy's guide and it's been great. Have made about 5 or 6 no problems, plays back on my player like a dream. Using Smartripper, DVD2AVI, VOB2Audio &Tmpgenc (splitting file after encoding), then burning with Nero.

However, the last couple I've tried to make have gone wrong somewhere along the way. In two cases now everything has seemed to work fine but when I play the SVCD in my player, the image is a really flickery (quite like the strobing effect described somehwere else on the forums). Nothing has changed as far as I'm aware (unfortunately can't give you bitrate details etc as am writing this at the office). The strangest thing is that with my most recent effort (split over 2 CD-Rs) the second half plays fine, whilst the first half is unwatchable.

Please have pity on a newbie and give me some pointers.

CJ.