I made a SVCD (480X480, 44.1 kHz, 2500 kbps) from a mpeg-2 file "captured" by my ATI AIW Radeon 7500 video card. I tricked the header using TMPGEnc (which likely wasn't necessary) and burned it to a CD-RW with Nero. My Panasonic CP72 played it just fine and it looked very good.

Then I took a mpeg-2 file I had captured over a year ago and re-encoded it using TMPGEnc from its original 640X240 44.1 kHz 6 mbps mpeg-2 format into SVCD (480X480, 44.1kHz, 2520 kbps). Yes, it took a long time. When I stuck it in the CP72 it didn't play right at all - just steadily stuttered through the video.

Any ideas why the big difference? It seems like it would be problematic converting 640X240 to 480X480 - is that true?

Any suggestions as to how I can best get my old 640X240 videos onto CD-R(W) for the DVD player to play them?

Thanks,

Tim