when I play VCD or DVD in my DVD player, I can use remote function 'go to' and go to certain picture. But after I burn the SVCD and play it, I can only use 'FF' to fast forward to certain scene, what should I do in encoding or what software I need to make 'go to' work?

Any responses are appreciated.

You can author your SVCD disc just like a VCD disc. i.e: Create menu and chapter points. Then, when playing the SVCD disc, you can press Next/Previous chapter on your remote.

You can use "VCDEasy" for authoring and burning VCD/SVCD discs

Thank you for your information.

I am using TMPGEnc to encode the MPEG-1 into SVCD, then using NERO to burn. Can you please let me know where I can add the function as you mentioned (actually that is exactly the function I want). But still I want to make them as SVCD, not VCD.

The more detail, the better, since SVCD making is new for me.

It seems to me that encoding MPEG1 to MPEG2 is not someting that will yield good results, but it's up to you.

Before using VCDEasy, you need to have a compliant SVCD mpg file. You then load it into VCDEasy, set chapters (and menu, if you want), and burn in to CD. You can find detailed guides on using VCDEasy on the net. Go here for a start:

www.dvdrhelp.com

The reason I capture video to MPEG-1 is: when I capture the video, if I set to capture MPEG2, then when I try to encode it, the TMPGEnc will not recognize the file .mp2 which is the only type I can save. I do not know how to change the type or fix it. So what I do is: first capture in MPEG-1, then encode it to SVCD, I just want to know if it is OK or anyone is doing this too.

Well it's hard to say that it's OK. It seems a very awkward way to capture and convert. Capturing to MPEG1 degrades the quality of the video, and then the conversion to MPEG2 degrades it further. The best way would be to capture to AVI (with a good codec like Huffyuv or MJPEG with HQ settings) and then encode to MPEG2.

Is this a limitation of your capture card, software?

Try to rename your files: xxxx.mp2 --> xxxx.mpg.

Cheers,
Laszlo

I knew you were burning with Nero. Unfortunately, the makers of Nero took the easy way out to make SVCD work and they do NOT follow the standards for creating such discs. There is a kludge in a file that the format needs that does not follow the standards for SVCD. The kludge breaks "time search" which is what you mean by "go to".
There is no fix for it Certain DVD players can still do time search on Nero burned discs, but they seem to be in the minority of players and I don't know which players they are. Most DVD players that support SVCD can't time search on Nero burned discs because Nero deliberately broke that functionality to make 100% sure that FF/RW worked. It used to be that you could always time search on Nero burned SVCDs but most DVD players couldn't FF/RW the discs. To shut up the constant complaints they got, and they got a lot about it, Nero did something not by the book that permanently fixed FF/RW but it totally broke time search on most DVD players. It's been like this for years, so I don't think Nero will ever fix it. The only solution I know is to produce your SVCDs with the very old I-Author program or better, use VCDeasy (http://www.vcdeasy.org) to make them. VCDeasy does follow the standards for SVCD and discs you make with it will correctly FF, RW and time search.