Hoster questions, trial user.

[Smallan]

Hi,
I'm trying the Hoster demo. Looks good so far. I've imported some songs but when I play them I get audio only, no graphics show up in the pop up screen. I expect it will be a setting I've missed.

For those of you using this software to run professional shows, what is a recommended laptop set up? I expect you need an audio card with RCA outputs and I see a dual display video card is required.

[DJYale]

When I first started I used an old Compaq laptop that had an s-video out for display ... as for audio, simply need a cable that has 1/8th to 1/4 stereo jacks.... or a 1/8th to 1/8th cable with a 1/4 adapter to jack in to your sound system....

[mayottjr]

Sounds to me if all your getting is the audio, Your cd rom is not capablae of handling cd+g simple fix is make sure you buy PLEXTOR (most of these will work)

[Beavis]

my advise is not to cheap out when you buy a laptop.

also when you get it, make sure you get all windows updates before installing hoster.

[Smallan]

Thanks for the laptop advice.
Re graphics loss. I doubt it's the burner. My Asus burner successfully backs up cdg on Nero and Clone cd. I can also create bin files with Audiograbber.

[gduns - with the Lord]

While your cd burner will backup and make images of all these cdg's It has to be capable to do this on a track by track basis, Not just disk at once. I have used the programs you are speaking of, and they do copy cdg disks, But they cant read the lowlevel graphics. With the cdg drives MTU uses, and the right burner These programs can sometimes read a disk that just shows garbage on a karaoke machine.

Just keep in mind, you may need to get a usb Plextor burner.

[admin]

Originally Posted by gduns

While your cd burner will backup and make images of all these cdg's It has to be capable to do this on a track by track basis, Not just disk at once. I have used the programs you are speaking of, and they do copy cdg disks, But they cant read the lowlevel graphics. With the cdg drives MTU uses, and the right burner These programs can sometimes read a disk that just shows garbage on a karaoke machine.

Just keep in mind, you may need to get a usb Plextor burner.

Gduns is exactly right. CD Clone and Nero use a different read/write technique, and, to my knowledge, they do not read Track At Once, only Disc At Once (DAO). We require importing individual tracks into Hoster. We are working on new code right now to use a new Drive interface means that most any drive should then work, like you have ow. This will be in Hoster 3.2, out this summer.

[bobcox- with the Lord]

you should get a plextor, the usb plextors are very nice and the graphics are crisp and clean, i got mine from mtu. and hoster is the best karaoke software on the market. the rest dont even come close. buy it and you will be happy that you did. as for laptops i have dell inspirion 8100 it has tv out and i use 1/8 to 1/4 mono to go into my mixer. get a good laptop hope this helps, Bob

[Smallan]

Thanks for the help. Sounds like version 3.2 is for me.