[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by BEECEE

Admin,

I apologise for the delay in responding. Since my last post on this U-Best VCD issue, I resorted to completing a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate on my laptop (twice) including all Microsoft updates and ensuring that all recommended Windows 7 settings for Hoster have been implemented. I’ve also experimented with the numerous settings combinations of various codec packs, making sure to never have more than one codec pack installed at the same time because of possible conflicts.

In short, the Hoster MUX functionality will not work for the U-Best VCDs on my particular Asus N50VC notebook in the Windows Ultimate environment. As mentioned in post no. 33 of this thread, those identical U-Best VCD tracks installed on my desktop running XP Pro work flawlessly with the Hoster MUX functionality. These VCDs are definitely multiplexed and most of my VCDs have the vocals on the right channel.

The only key point of difference that I notice when playing any VCD tracks in Hoster is that ffdshow audio decoder launches in XP Pro, but it doesn’t launch at all in Windows 7 Ultimate. I’ll try and upload a screen-print of the XP Pro ffdshow audio decoder configuration window so that you can see evidence of how these files successfully play in Hoster via XP Pro via a decoder called ‘libmad’.

Only 10 of my 500 karaoke discs are VCD, the rest are CDG. To be honest I hardly play any of the VCD tracks, but I was hoping to get all of my Karaoke stuff digitised through Hoster. So for me it’s more of a frustration about not being able to figure out the problem, as opposed to VCDs being a major component of my collection.

I think it’s a codecs issue somehow linked to Windows Media Player. Probably some simple setting but I can’t resolve it. If there is a solution, that would be great. If not, so be it, life goes on

Thanks for your time and advice. Hoster is the best!

BEECEE,

I have looked at each Decoder (codec) for all the Formats listed in ffdshow audio decoder configuration in the K-lite codec pack and noticed the following:

libmad Decoder is only an option for the MP3 and MP1,MP2 formats. The default decoder for these 2 Formats in Win 7 appears to be libavcodec.

Your attachment from ffdshow audio decoder configuration for Win XP shows : Input description: 44100Hz, stero 224 kbps mp2 (libmad).

Recommend opening the ffdshow audio decoder configuration and change the MP2 Format Decoder to libmad (double click on libavcodec) and attempt to play your U-Best VCDs and see what happens.

Beyond that I am out of ideas as I do not have any U-Best VCDs to attempt to duplicate the problem.

Hope this works!