Playing a VCD

[wopwtt]

When I play a VCD file from my hard drive I get the pictures and words on the singers screen but not on my laptop. Can anyone help

[djmadmaxx]

That's the way any video file is.

[tonysjungle]

I have been having trouble with VCD's. I believe I have followed the directions like I was supposed to.

When I have my playlist up, which consists mostly of KMA's in my database, with a few temporarily imported songs of customers, I insert a VCD into my drive, click on "Video" and click on the file I want. It appears in my playlist as "Video" in the singer spot.

When I click on the song to play it, the sound comes on and I can hear the song, but no video or graphics come up. There is a box that appears on my screen that I am able to enlarge, but I am not able to move it onto my extended desktop. This box is black/empty. Confused...

[ddouglass]

You cannot play them directly from the disc. They must be copied to the hard drive to work correctly.

[tonysjungle]

Great, thanks! Now how do I actually go about doing that? When I look at the VCD's there are many folders that contain many files. Which are the correct ones to copy and paste? Is it just the .dat files?

[ddouglass]

Someone else will have to answer that as I don't use any VCDs.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

You cannot play them directly from the disc. They must be copied to the hard drive to work correctly.

At one time at least you could play directly from disk, but maybe that has changed since I haven't tried in a couple of years.

Great, thanks! Now how do I actually go about doing that? When I look at the VCD's there are many folders that contain many files. Which are the correct ones to copy and paste? Is it just the .dat files?

Yes it is just the .dat files and then use the video tab to add them to the playlist. If you have the same problem with these as you did with disks it may be a codec problem, first thing I would try is updating your Windows Media Player to the latest (11?).

Sam

[bendrew]

some vcd's won't play the video even it's in the hard drive 'cause you need to install codec to play. And there's a lot of free codec to choose from but I recommend Klite mega codec pack which play all my videos..And also, you have to extract the vcd as dat files .Some vcd works if you just copy the .dat files to your hard but some have a sync problem. But the right way to do it is to extract
it. I'm using Isobuster and have no problems with my 2500 vcd song file, But off course, after extracting, you still have to rename the title of the song which is another story. Then you have to print a songbook of your vcd which is another story, too. I experimented a lot about vcd conversion to hoster and so far, I'm happy with all the results....thanks