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As mentioned before, freeware versions of TMPGEnc do not support MPEG-2 files. For this reason, you have to setup the m2v plug-in with TMPGEnc. To setup the .m2v plug-in, simple extract all the files and folders into the TMPGEnc folder. You will need WinRAR to extract these files. When they are all extracted properly into the TMPGEnc folder, run the m2vconf.exe file. Now click OK and the program will close but the m2v plugin will have been installed. Now, extract the SSRC.exe file into a program folder of its own. So go to your Program Files and create a folder called SSRC and extract the file from the archive into the folder. Do the same with the tooLame files. Look at the picture that accompanies this text. In TMPGEnc, click Option --> Environmental Setting --> Audio engine. Change MPEG-1 Audioo Layer II encoder to External program and click Browse and load in your toolame.exe file from its Program Files folder that you just created. Now change Sampling Frequency Converter to External program, click Browse and load in the SSRC.exe file from its Program files folder. Now click OK and you should have just setup the two external audio encoders. The next step we will take now is encode the MPEG file to VCD. 
Now, Open TMPGEnc and load in your mpg file. If the audio stream doesnt load in, try extracting the audio first then load the audio you extracted in. After you have done this, click the Setting button and you will see something like the picture that accompanies this text. The values I put in are for a PAL format but if you need NTSC, don't worry, I'll mention what settings you need. Firstly, make sure Stream Type is set to MPEG-1 Video. This is very very important. Now the Size you pick depends on whether you are encoding to NTSC or PAL. The settings I have are for PAL, 352x288, but for NTSC you will need 352x240. The Aspect Ratio should be set at 16:9 for movies with borders and 4:3 for those full screen without borders (black bars). The Framerate should be 25fps for PAL or 29.97fps for NTSC. Rate control mode has to be Constant Birate (CBR) and the Birate has to be 1150kbits/sec. You dont need any more settings on this except Motion search precision. This is where you will make the choice of whether you want a fast encode with low to medium quality or whether you want a slow encode for High or the Highest Quality. I recommend that you choose Highest quality (very slow). When you are transcoding, you are going to have a quality loss no matter what, therefore by selecting this option, you will lose the minimum amount of quality. After you have set all this properly for whether you are making PAL or NTSC, click the Advanced Tab. 
Now under Advanced you have to pick some settings. Make sure to set the Source aspect ratio (the aspect ratio of the SVCD). Make sure Video arrange Method is set to Full screen (keep aspect ratio). We wont be using any of the filters in this guide, I will leave that up to you to experiment with some time yourself. Now that we have all the Video settings set we have to make sure that the audio settings we get will be VCD Compliant. Click the Audio Tab.
VCD audio has to be MPEG-1 Audio Layer II or MP2 as it is better known. The Sampling frequency has to be 44100Hz and the Birate has to be 224kbits/sec. Keep Channel mode set to Stereo. VCD playback can often mess up sync if the audio settings are wrong so make sure that you set them as I have set them. When you have that done, click the System tab. Change Stream type to MPEG-1 VideoCD. This will make sure that your resulting file will have the correct VCD headers.