They should be on any (S)VCD DVD player/recorder.

Mpeg2 files play fine on all our DVDs, but then again all our DVDs play VCD's, (S)VCD's, MP3's, CDA's, ect.

But the amount of space they take up on a CD is hardly worth the effort of burning them. In my own experience of this, I've found you'll get 10 to 20 mins of video on 1 650meg CD which means if you have over 600 hours of video, (as we have), you'll need a hell of a lot of CD's

I use Windows Movie Maker for my video's then convert them from WMA to (s)VCD, which works but as I've said above, the files take up massive amounts of CD space.

I'm looking for a decent freeware/shareware program, (on the basis there's no vested interest by the author to 'create bugs' and then get more money from updates and patches unlike some DVD progs out there), I can edit my video's with and then burn back onto a disk.

Windows Movie Maker is fine for a 'film' that's a few mins long, but any longer than 8 or 9 mins and I find it locks up when I'm time lining and editing.