VCDhelp posts have been very helpful in getting SVCD to play on the RV-31. Now I would like to reduce the bitrate (to say something like 1800) to fit 45 minutes or so on one CDR. When I try the multiplex trick and then used TMPGEnc tricks described elsewhere on vcdhelp to lower the bitrate of the resulting (non-standard) MPEG-1 VCD, I seem to get audio play but no video play on the Panasonic after burn with Nero. (The resulting disc plays fine in WinDVD.) Any ideas about how to successfully do bitrate reduction would be most appreciated. For instance, would it help to do the bitrate reduction first, as non-standard SVCD, and THEN do the multiplex??