When I try to play a svcd that is on a cd powerdvd gives a green screen and crappy sound(could be too fast)
Playing svcd's from the hard disk works fine.
A strange thing I noticed is that when I record the svcd and don't use the option "joliet" in nero burning rom the disk plays fine also.

but now I want to know how to make those "joliet-option-on-disks" playable.

I never had this problem in win98 it just came up after installing w2k

I don't think it's a codec coz the playback of svcd's on the hard disk plays fine. the "joliet" issue I can't explain.
please help me
thanks
Ro

I'm not sure you should be using Joliet. Joliet allows you to use names longer than the old MS-DOS limit of 8.3 characters. That is, names on the disc must be in the format of no greater than 8 characters, one dot, and 3
characters. For example, ROSE, HELLO.DAT, and JAZZ1234.MPG are legal names, DICTIONARY.DAT is not. I'm not sure offhand if Joliet is really OK for SVCD or not. I know that it should be avoided for DVD making, so I'm not sure if SVCD really supports it or not. Older versions of PowerDVD did not directly play SVCD, but the new version (I guess you have this) supposedly does. You might want to try to what we used to do with PowerDVD version 3.x. Open it in File Play mode and directly load the AVISEQXX.* file(s) from the MPEG2 subdirectory on the SVCD. You should be able to at least play your SVCDs this way. PowerDVD may be enforcing the 8.3 naming on the disc and this may be your problem.