Ripping laser discs

[Lonman]

Hello. I am having no luck ripping a laser disc via capture card that will play in Hoster. I have tried several ripping formats (avi, mpeg, mp4, etc) - in which some will either crash Hoster or will play but with black or colored screen and no sound - but will play in WMP fine. I have also installed the CODEC pack recommended from several throughout various threads on this forum.
So I guess my question would be which program have you used with positive results? Also which format to rip would be recommended?
Thanks!

[OneEskalera]

Try to convert your file to mpeg VCD compliant. What I did to my laserdisc is to copy it to digital camcoder thru video input and convert the digital file to Vcd compliant mpeg. Try the already available file(s) you have to convert to mpeg files. I have TMPGenc 2.5 to convert all my files VCD compliant mpeg files. All my mpeg files work in hoster. Hope this will help

[Lonman]

Thanks for that. I think I actually found a program that successfully worked - literally tried 45 programs the last couple days. It's a rather large mpg file - 285MB, but I can play with the compression ratios later. So far so good though as far as it playing perfectly in Hoster.

[OneEskalera]

You're welcome. Happy Ripping and converting.

[Lonman]

Alright here is a wierd one. I brought my videos that played fine on my computer at home, loaded them on my show computer. They didn't play at all - not even on WMP. It was an older version so I updated to 11 & loaded a compatible codec pack. Now they will play fine through WMP and Hoster recognizes them, loads them and starts to play - video comes up perfect, however no audio. I thought maybe something changed in my audio settings, but all my kma files played fine. Tried a video again, video fine - no audio. I slid the volume slider on the Hoster screen (it's always at max) & the audio appeared. Stopped the song loaded up another - perfect video, no audio, clicked the volume slider again (just clicked it did not move or adjust this time), audio appeared.
Has anyone experienced this phenomenon? If so, what was the fix?

[Roy Dennis]

I have had this problem, can't quite remember the exact fix but it was a matter of changing some settings in the k-light tweak tool. If you mess the settings up too much you can always set it back to it's default settings so don't be afraid to fiddle with it.

Roy