I've known about a website (www.archive.org/movies/index.html) that offers stock footage and old films in a couple of different formats. I can download and play the MPEG-1 files with no problems but I can't, for the life of me, play the MPEG-2.

What I really want to do is burn some of my favorite ones to an svcd. I'm on a Mac and I've tried just about everything and nothing has worked. I even have Virtual PC and tried a bunch of programs with that but I got a lot of the same errors. I've converted to svcd before and I've also had MPEG-2 files and converted them to a SVCD image (I usually use VCDToolsX). I used vlc like they suggest in the help pages on archive.org but the video never plays, even with the latest version of vlc. I have to drag a window or something over the player to revel what I'm supposed to be seeing with the audio I'm hearing. I've never run into a problem like this before, if anyone has had any success burning these, or even watching them, I'd sure like to know how you did it.

The only other post asking about this same site has made by hexhibit. They said to use bbdemux but once it's demuxed you still can't play it in anything. Even if you multiplex the video and audio it does the same thing, plays audio but no video.