Ibook w/OSX.2 + QT6w/mpg2 ext WON'T play SVCD from PC NERO!

[lunchbucket4297]

here's the story. i have a PC, and also have an IBOOK, which if it were as capable as my PC [Nero, SVCDs, GrabIt, etc] would be my only machine.

so the PC burns SVCDs of video that my DVD player [an APEX] will play perfectly. but the ibook chokes on them.

i tried to drop my friend, an apple employee, a disc NERO burned in Win2k as SVCD from a 480x480 mpeg2 file [one that we tried and made SURE it worked with the PC and the DVD player!], but QT6 with the MPEG-2 package installed and registered all the way to hell, WOULD NOT PLAY IT. Kept saying "I/O Error" or something like that. both on his Ibook AND my own. Both running 0SX.2!

Steve needs a slap across the face.

ALL I WANT is for the damn idiot mac to play the effing discs that everything else I own will play, [not with that sick ass DivxDoctor CRAP that converts and mangles divx files so that the PC won't recognize them, not with some other mac-side hackaround either.] I've read this forum and others elsewhere, and it seems no one has my particular problem.

Is this a shortcoming of Nero?
Does the ibook just hate the way NERO authors these files?
Is there some minor tweak I'm missing somewhere?

any help would be appreciated. TIA...

-lb

[Ross]

For the record, EVERYBODY has your problem.
Slap Steve around till OS X supports mode 2 cd disks.
VLC will access and play the mpeg track off of the disk, however.
And VCD Copy X will extract the mpegs to your hard drive.

[Madpeds]

I use VIC version 4.42 or something like that. and I can watch every VCD or SVCD even stuff burned with Nero from a PC
http://www.videolan.org
The problem I'm having is that I can't burn it to my own cd's, it just sits there on my hard drive. I've tried Toast 5.0, converting it to a .bin file and Quicktime nothing will work on this to convert it. If you have any insight I'd love to hear it.

[Ross]

Madpeds: If I understand, you cannot burn Nero .nrg files.
I put together a patch to rip that type of disk, but I have no .nrg images to test it with.
Download it at homepage.mac.com/rnc/tools.html

[Madpeds]

Thanks Ross, but nothing seems to work, I can watch it with VideoLan, but that's it. It's an mpg file, but a bad one I guess. Looks like Hang em High won't make it into the collection. I was hopeful that one of those tools on the site would work, but nada.