Multiplex Video Karaoke
 

I can hear the vocals ok on my CDG multiplex, but not on my video karaoke multiplex??? is this the way it's suppose to be? I'm using version 4.10.

are you using a stereo board if so cdg multiplex will always be like that , you either pan it to the left to remove the vocals out,or get a y adapter and just plug it to the left input of the channels ( depends what kind of cable you are using.) if its an rca get an rca ( white & red) to 1/4"

Just above the playlist are two buttons (Stereo and Vocal/no vocal). The default setting for multiplexed songs is "No Vocal" so they will play correctly for Karaoke. If you click the "No Vocal" button it will change to "Vocal" and you will hear the vocal along with the music.

Either i am misunderstanding something here, or i didn't make my question clear. Which is most likely it...but as i asked. My multiplex cd+g's are working correctly when i click the vocal/no vocal button. What isn't working, are my video VCD multiplex songs. No matter if i click the video/no video button or not. My board is a Peavey 16FX mixer. Billyo, even through the laptop itself, or headphones from my edirol it's not multiplex. Same board i've had with all the Hoster software. That's why i can't figure out why the VCD's have no multiplex all of a sudden. I must have clicked something i wasn't suppose to. Version 4.10 :?

oh ok, on your first post you said you were having problems with the cdg multiplex, not with the vcd ,..but anyway, i never had problems what so ever with playing vcd, in any of the previous versions,as a matter of fact i just got done trying out the new 4.11 for a fund raising i'm doing tonight, and i added some videos ( vcd imprted as a .dat file) on the playlist and all went fine no vocals , like i said before i was using a y adaptor( can't find my regular cable:f) and plugged it into the left channel ,are you using hoster to play the vcd or mwp?

That I am not sure I can answer. I don't use videos at all so do not have any experience with either plain VCDs or Multiplexed ones. Did they work correctly in previous versions or have they never worked for the Multiplex?
I do know that the next release which will be a ways off, is planned to have Hoster set up to add the video files to Hoster's database with BookIDs. The multiplex will be one thing they will need to look into while that is being developed.
If this just started I suggest you send in a Support Email with the problem and they can start looking at it now. I would not expect an immediate answer to the problem but at least they will be aware of it to try to get it working with 4.20.

billyo.... But i must admit, sometimes what i type is not what i mean..or is it what i mean is not what i type..or is it???? lol

Thanks guys for your help as always. Don't know what i'd do without it. I very seldom use the multiplex on any song, but i just happen to want to hear how a song went, so i tried playing the vcd karaoke song to find out..and no vocals..no matter what...:e yikes. I'm home this evening because my karaoke show was cancelled because of the flu out there. So were many local activities around here. Our state is hit really hard with the swine flu and that H1N1 flu....

i'm confused too:e, but anyway , are you talking about playing a regular vcd disc on a player, or vcd imported to a hard drive? the best bet for that is to hi-light / Click on the song and let wmp play it...sorry about the h1n1 in your state..we've had some cases here in Fla. where a few of them died, there was a lady here in our city that had the h1n1, she was pregnant, she made it but the baby didn't...

I heard tonight on the news that they have now declared the H1N1 flu as a National Emergency. Not sure if that will help get anything done quicker though.

The entire country has been offered a free immunisation shot here. Must go & have mine............

Just a quick and dirty test on my Vista machine shows MPX on videos are working as they should.

Nothing clickable in Hoster will disable MPX.

The only possible thing I can think of would be something in your codec settings has changed.??

Sam

Sam I think what he wanted was to be able to play a song to hear how it is supposed to go. Otherwise they are playing correctly without the vocal and he wanted to turn on the vocal to hear it.

Exactly.
stereo - vocal and no vocal button are performing exactly as they were designed with video's. which is why I suggested it might be a codec problem.

Sam

I don't exactly know what you're saying here same. How are they "exactly" designed to work on video VCD disc? on mine, they're not working at all. On my regular CDG multiplex songs the vocal/no vocal button is working? It's a brand new laptop. Seems before they were working alright with the vocal/no vocal button.

They are supposed to work just as with MPX cdg's. Stereo runs both channels, music on one channel and music + vocals on the other.
When the "Vocal" button is showing, the channel with vocals is turned off and the music only channel is bridged to both sides.
When the No Vocal" button is showing the music only channel is turned off and the music+vocal channel is bridged to both sides.

I just double checked on my XP machine with several video types as well as a VCD disk and all of the mpx functions are working as they are supposed to.

Still sounds like a codec problem to me, especially since it is a new machine.

Sam

ok..whats a codec problem? how do i go about correcting it? As i mentioned, all my video multiplex use to work correctly a while back on a different version. So it's not like they never worked multiplex. Thanks sam for your help.

Search for K-Lite Codec pack and install it. This pack seems to have everything needed and current too.