thinking about re-importing vcd

[billyo]

i got a few vcd's and i imported them as a dat. file, trying to read the manual on how to import video file can't seem to find it..so how do i go about re-importing my vcd to hoster 4.05..is it like importing it as a regular cdg's?..i have no problems right now everything is working fine..just wondering how to..i just wanna free-up some space on my int. drive..

[Skybird74]

Hoster doesn't "import" videos yet. (May be in 4.1)
It is not necessary to import VCDs like CDs with WMP, either. All you really have to do is "copy & paste" the .dat files to a folder using Windows Explorer. WMP will still add them to it's database just by clicking on "Add to Library".

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

Hoster doesn't "import" videos yet. (May be in 4.1)
It is not necessary to import VCDs like CDs with WMP, either. All you really have to do is "copy & paste" the .dat files to a folder using Windows Explorer. WMP will still add them to it's database just by clicking on "Add to Library".

thats what ive been doing, i kinda figure that hoster can not import vcd yet when i looked into the import screen..but anyway thanks for your reply !!!

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by billyo

thats what ive been doing, i kinda figure that hoster can not import vcd yet when i looked into the import screen..but anyway thanks for your reply !!!

The buttons are there because MTU planned on adding all these features when 4.0 first came out, but all the problems Vista delayed it. Admin said in a post not too long ago that "import videos" should be working in 4.1, hopefully before the end of the year. This is what I've been waiting for since it was planned back in May. Guess we can wait a little longer

[admin]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

The buttons are there because MTU planned on adding all these features when 4.0 first came out, but all the problems Vista delayed it. Admin said in a post not too long ago that "import videos" should be working in 4.1, hopefully before the end of the year. This is what I've been waiting for since it was planned back in May. Guess we can wait a little longer

Sigh....... you are right. We had to postpone adding Video files into the Songs Database. Problem was, we need to have a different KMA format that doesn't duplicate the file with our header on it. We actually did it, and then removed it due to the poor performance and HDD space required. We didn't want to go down that path and have a bunch of HDVID files floating around, and then terminate support. We even had all 10 video file types supported that Hoster can play!

The new approach will index video files at several per second, versus minutes per file that it now would take. We will add a "Header file" with the same name as the video file into the same folder. You can use EDIT SONGS command dialog to "edit" the header file just like a KMA file now. Some may not like the "2 files" concept, but we look at how accepted the MP3+G format is today (with 2 files), and we are doing a similar for our Video+Header files.

As you can imagine, with ALL our time going into Hoster and VISTA since last fall, our other products have been falling behind. We are now working on Microstudio 4.10, that will include new IMPORT TRACKS and WRITE DISC (and Dupe Disc) code.

Our goal is to add the Import Tracks support into Hoster to import VCD and DVD tracks as files, and index them into the Songs Database. This also "should" be able to support importing SCDG disc tracks directly from the SCDG discs. We'll still have to convert their MPG format into MP3+G, but we can do it.

This new direction has just evolved as we had engineering meetings on the Microstudio upgrade, so this is "hot off the press".

We think everyone would appreciate putting your VCD or DVD discs into your Hoster CDROM drive, and import them into the Songs Database? Right? OK!

[Joe Nieves]

Hey Admin

Great news looking forward to that feature and think you for your hard work.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by admin

Sigh....... you are right. We had to postpone adding Video files into the Songs Database....
Our goal is to add the Import Tracks support into Hoster to import VCD and DVD tracks as files, and index them into the Songs Database. This also "should" be able to support importing SCDG disc tracks directly from the SCDG discs. We'll still have to convert their MPG format into MP3+G, but we can do it.

This new direction has just evolved as we had engineering meetings on the Microstudio upgrade, so this is "hot off the press".

We think everyone would appreciate putting your VCD or DVD discs into your Hoster CDROM drive, and import them into the Songs Database? Right? OK!

Thanks Admin for updating us on this feature. This is EXCITING news and I am sure will be worth the wait. Will this be part of 4.1 that is expected in early 2009? or could it be sooner?

I also hope you will be able to read my posts about how different versions of Hoster will play Videos either with or without vocals (while waiting on the MUX to be fixed).