Playing a VCD
 

When I play a VCD file from my hard drive I get the pictures and words on the singers screen but not on my laptop. Can anyone help

That's the way any video file is.

Can't play VCD's
 

I have been having trouble with VCD's. I believe I have followed the directions like I was supposed to.

When I have my playlist up, which consists mostly of KMA's in my database, with a few temporarily imported songs of customers, I insert a VCD into my drive, click on "Video" and click on the file I want. It appears in my playlist as "Video" in the singer spot.

When I click on the song to play it, the sound comes on and I can hear the song, but no video or graphics come up. There is a box that appears on my screen that I am able to enlarge, but I am not able to move it onto my extended desktop. This box is black/empty. Confused...

You cannot play them directly from the disc. They must be copied to the hard drive to work correctly.

Copying VCD to Hard Drive
 

Great, thanks! Now how do I actually go about doing that? When I look at the VCD's there are many folders that contain many files. Which are the correct ones to copy and paste? Is it just the .dat files?

Someone else will have to answer that as I don't use any VCDs.

At one time at least you could play directly from disk, but maybe that has changed since I haven't tried in a couple of years.

Yes it is just the .dat files and then use the video tab to add them to the playlist. If you have the same problem with these as you did with disks it may be a codec problem, first thing I would try is updating your Windows Media Player to the latest (11?).

Sam

some vcd's won't play the video even it's in the hard drive 'cause you need to install codec to play. And there's a lot of free codec to choose from but I recommend Klite mega codec pack which play all my videos..And also, you have to extract the vcd as dat files .Some vcd works if you just copy the .dat files to your hard but some have a sync problem. But the right way to do it is to extract
it. I'm using Isobuster and have no problems with my 2500 vcd song file, But off course, after extracting, you still have to rename the title of the song which is another story. Then you have to print a songbook of your vcd which is another story, too. I experimented a lot about vcd conversion to hoster and so far, I'm happy with all the results....thanks

ddouglas is wrong to say that you can not play them directly from the disc as I have just tried it on my version 3.321 and they play fine, although I usually load them onto the hard drive myself. When you open the disc from the video button in hoster you must find the folder that they are in. I loaded In an "Origanal Footage"video cd to test this. In my case they are in a folder named MPEGAV and when you open this folder they are .Dat files. The only other thing that I can think of at the moment is that you must have the video codec to see the video, if you have a programme like "Intervideo Windvd" this has the codec in it. If you can play video through windows media player then you must have the codec.

If you want to load them onto your hard drive just copy and paste the .dat files, you can then rename them yourself but keep the .dat file type at the end of the file name.

Hope this helps you.

no disrespect Roy but,

just for the record, dale is usually right 99% of the time. :)

OOPS!! You are correct I was wrong. You can play them from the CD drive. I don't use any video karaoke so am not as familiar with it.:s

Dale,
It's that 1% that gets us every time. We still love you man! I think I speak for everybody on the board when I say thanks for all of your great advice and help. :g :c

Jim :g

Isobuster is great for extracting vcd. I had for years now and it works great.

Great! Thanks everyone for the replies. I only have one lady that brings in her VCD's and she's always hoping I'll be able to figure it out.

I guess, given the copyright issues, I'll have to do the whole extracting process, and then delete it after playing it - as I'm understanding that it can't be temporarily imported like the cdg's can...

Will sort through the thread and try to figure out the best thing to do.

I tried to play vcd on my laptop dvd/cd drive on hoster 3.321 and everything seems to be normal. So you could play vcd directly on hoster using video tab in selecting your vcd file. As long your disk drive could read the disk, you could use your disk drive as vcd player. I have Hp laptop with vista OS. Hoster 3.321 and my disk drive could extract vcd and cdg compatible.

If you look at any CDG disc with windows explorer it will show the files with a CDA extension.

Yes, I know that...... that wasn't my qustion!

I have Hp Pavillion DV6426US with Vista Home Premium with TSST Corp. CD/DVDW TS - L632M ATA device. I used Isobuster to ripped my VCD and CDGRipper 1.012 by Tricerasoft to ripped my CDG and had not yet encountered any problem on ripping.

On my other desktop computers though (custom built) I have dvd drives that would not ripped cdg's (Pioneer and Sony) but when I copied and installed wnaspi.dll32 to the ripper program folder, it seems to do the tricked and I could ripped those cdg's on the fly.

CDGRipper is not forgiving also on type of CD/DVD drive, Tricerasoft have list of recommended drives but after installing wnaspi32.dll every drives seems to be compatible to read cdg's. I also had Power CDG Burner 1.4.12 which ripped and burned cdg by www. ************ on which is great on ripping cdg's and very forgiving on compatibility issues. Just happen to have to ripping for ten years now, way before I was introduced to Hoster. I had Hoster for 5 years and very, very pleased with it.

Before hoster, I used to have vocal cancel and pitch controller hardware because other software would not do all the trick for true karaoke function. Now with Hoster 3.321 (and so older version) I only have my computer with Hoster, External Harddrive for all my karaoke and music files and the mixers.