[songpony]

It's my understanding that Laser, DVD and VCD files can be imported to a computer using a video recording device connected to the output of a standard karaoke player. The device I'm looking at can import the songs in an mpeg-1 (?) format (2 different formats - one that's a VCD format and one that's DVD), or DivX (a more compressed format?). The audio and video is supposedly already sync'd up and the files can be played via WMP or something similar - no additional work needs to be done on them. Is there any way to convert these types of files to the .kma format required by Hoster, or is the only option to purchase yet more software that will convert them to CDG, burn them to many CDs that will never be used again, then load them to Hoster? I was thinking this would be a great solution to get my lasers, DVDs, VCDs, and even my multiplexed disks onto the computer (I can play them with the vocals turned off) so I can run everything from there (I'm tired of dragging around a player and all its accoutrements), but would REALLY like to be able to play it all in Hoster - having to use another program will probably introduce additional problems (I've heard much about audio dropouts, etc.) and defeats the ability for me to have my rotation easily lined up in Hoster. Having to switch to another program, locate and call up the file, then play it (probably having to drag the window to the second display as well) is probably as much "overhead" as just playing the disk. Just wondered if there are any Hoster options.... Thanks.