SVCD problems - skipping audio, weird picture, please help!!

[cgreer00]

I just purchased an Apex 1100 and I am trying to burn some of my home Mini DV movies into SVCD format to watch on the DVD player. I encode using TMPGEnc and KingViper's SVCD template that is found under tools->options. Nero says it is non-compliant, but I tell it to ignore it and burn the MPEG 2 file anyway. I put it in the DVD player and it starts playing, HOWEVER:

1) The picture is offcenter, and you can see the APEX blue DVD welcome screen on the right edge of the screen???

2) The audio skips intermittently...it plays for 4 seconds then skips for 2 seconds then plays for 2 seconds and skips for a second, etc. etc.

I really want to be able to watch SVCDS of my Mini DV tapes, so what do you all recommend? By the way, I encoded the same source file to VCD format and burned it using Nero, and it works fine (although the picture quality isn't too great.)

[Betamax]

You're talking about MiniDVD. This type of DVD only are playable at PC's and never will at a standalone DVD-player!

[cgreer00]

What? No I am not talking about a MiniDv. First of all, the Apex 1100W will play MiniDvs, so even if that is what I was burning, it should be able to play them fine. I am burning SVCDs, but they just aren't playing correctly because of the problems I mentioned above. Anyone else? I really am stumped on this one.

Thanks!