Vob & Mpg not playing on ext. desktop

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Hi Kelley
I’m sure that all New Zealanders are extremely saddened by the devastating earthquake in Christchurch, our biggest South Island city. This is shaping as New Zealand’s worst natural disaster since 1931 in terms of the scale of damage and the loss of life. Thankfully, I do not live in or near Christchurch. However, as a small country, we all feel deeply for our Christchurch friends and fellow Kiwis.

My MUX issue pales into insignificance. However to answer your questions, I can confirm that the discs concerned are definitely U-Best VCD. They’re also listed as U-Best VCD on the kjpro.com database.

I copied the VCDs with Windows Explorer and the file type for each track is .DAT. No ripping program was used. I then imported the files into Hoster as ‘Hard Drive Files’ – video.

When loaded into the Hoster Playlist they appear as type HDVID if I use search; or VIDEO if I use the add Video Song button. Both options play the songs.

When selecting MUX, although the MUX ‘Stereo’ and ‘No Vocal’ buttons can be engaged and disengaged, they do not mute and un-mute the vocals on the U-Best tracks.

However, I also have one only locally produced New Zealand VCD imported into Hoster. MUX functions correctly on that disc. So the MUX issue only relates to the U-Best HDVID files.

I’ve experimented with the K-Lite Codec pack both installed and un-installed and it makes absolutely no difference. This indicates that when K-Lite is installed, ffdshow audio decoder is not functioning because its tray icon does not appear in the task bar.

I unsuccessfully tried to play a track direct from the VCD Disc via Hoster’s play customer ‘Disc’ function. The track appeared to ‘import’ ok but playback sound comprised screech sounds as opposed to music.

Today, I also used Microsoft Update to install the newly released Microsoft Win7 Service Pack 1. Unfortunately MUX still won’t function correctly.
I even uninstalled my version of Hoster (4.22) and demo’d the latest Hoster Demo to see if could get MUX to work properly on a couple of U-Best VCD tracks imported into HosterDemo. No joy.

It looks like there’s a rogue problem on my Win7 laptop. Thanks Kelley and Roy for attempting to help me resolve this issue.