After making mulitple coasters I've got my DVP-NS700P decoding MPEG2(SVCD) under the guise of a VCD (though I have some audio sync issues) using Mac OSX. I haven't yet pushed the boundries of this but the basics seem to be working and it was very straight forward (simple, once I knew what I was looking for).

First, I use MissingMpegTools from: http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/

1) I demuxed and down-converted a DVD vob (A digital dolby clip I got off the web) to 480x480 2500Kbps - converted the audio over to MP2 format (44K/224Kb).

2) The shortcut: Within MissingMpegTools go to MPLEX and select your video and audio streams, select MPEG-1 VCD, VBR. Click 'MUX' if all goes well it should pop up a terminal window where it runs the CLI to MPLEX and should fail miserably. With the terminal selected as your top window, hit up-arrow, this should bring the previous command back to the command line. Back-arrow to the very beggining of the mplex command where it states '-f 1' as one of the arguments. Change this to '-f 2'. Hit return.

At this point you may get some errors, but it should go all the way to completion.

3) In the VCDXGEN tab of MissingMpegTools select 'VCD 2.0' and generate the XML file.

4) In the VCDXBUILD tab select the XML, I use CDRDAO for the output

5) Run toast, select Multitrack XA, Drag the .img files (ignore the others), make sure they are in proper order.

6) Burn and try it....Works fine on my Sony player

issues: Last night was my first shot and the quality wasn't as good as I wanted, but I think it has to do with the 2500 bit rate. So I'll need to play with that.

I tried another using a star-wars trailer in DIVX format. This is when I experienced the audio problem, but I think I have an idea of what I did wrong here. I up-converted to 480x480 (A no-no I know) the video stream post demux, which I think threw everything off.

I need to play with the parameters more to get the quality and audio working, but I thought any Mac users out there may be curious about how to do this, since everything I've read is PC based.

Good luck - looking to hear others experiences.....

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