Playing a VCD

[Roy Dennis]

ddouglas is wrong to say that you can not play them directly from the disc as I have just tried it on my version 3.321 and they play fine, although I usually load them onto the hard drive myself. When you open the disc from the video button in hoster you must find the folder that they are in. I loaded In an "Origanal Footage"video cd to test this. In my case they are in a folder named MPEGAV and when you open this folder they are .Dat files. The only other thing that I can think of at the moment is that you must have the video codec to see the video, if you have a programme like "Intervideo Windvd" this has the codec in it. If you can play video through windows media player then you must have the codec.

If you want to load them onto your hard drive just copy and paste the .dat files, you can then rename them yourself but keep the .dat file type at the end of the file name.

Hope this helps you.

[Beavis]

no disrespect Roy but,

just for the record, dale is usually right 99% of the time.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Beavis

no disrespect Roy but,

just for the record, dale is usually right 99% of the time.

Dale,
It's that 1% that gets us every time. We still love you man! I think I speak for everybody on the board when I say thanks for all of your great advice and help.

Jim

[OneEskalera]

Isobuster is great for extracting vcd. I had for years now and it works great.

[tonysjungle]

Great! Thanks everyone for the replies. I only have one lady that brings in her VCD's and she's always hoping I'll be able to figure it out.

I guess, given the copyright issues, I'll have to do the whole extracting process, and then delete it after playing it - as I'm understanding that it can't be temporarily imported like the cdg's can...

Will sort through the thread and try to figure out the best thing to do.

[OneEskalera]

I tried to play vcd on my laptop dvd/cd drive on hoster 3.321 and everything seems to be normal. So you could play vcd directly on hoster using video tab in selecting your vcd file. As long your disk drive could read the disk, you could use your disk drive as vcd player. I have Hp laptop with vista OS. Hoster 3.321 and my disk drive could extract vcd and cdg compatible.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by OneEskalera

I tried to play vcd on my laptop dvd/cd drive on hoster 3.321 and everything seems to be normal. So you could play vcd directly on hoster using video tab in selecting your vcd file. As long your disk drive could read the disk, you could use your disk drive as vcd player. I have Hp laptop with vista OS. Hoster 3.321 and my disk drive could extract vcd and cdg compatible.

I'm curious as to what DVD drive you have??? I also have an HP laptop with Vista & 3.321 (dv8449), but my disk drive will NOT read Karaoke even though the Test says it will. Hoster just gives me Noise, but if I use Windows Explorer to view the contents, it shows .cda (music files) only, but Hoster can't read them either because of the format.

[ddouglass]

OOPS!! You are correct I was wrong. You can play them from the CD drive. I don't use any video karaoke so am not as familiar with it.