Playing a VCD

[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]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

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.

If you look at any CDG disc with windows explorer it will show the files with a CDA extension.

[Skybird74]

Yes, I know that...... that wasn't my qustion!

[OneEskalera]

I have Hp Pavillion DV6426US with Vista Home Premium with TSST Corp. CD/DVDW TS - L632M ATA device. I used Isobuster to ripped my VCD and CDGRipper 1.012 by Tricerasoft to ripped my CDG and had not yet encountered any problem on ripping.

On my other desktop computers though (custom built) I have dvd drives that would not ripped cdg's (Pioneer and Sony) but when I copied and installed wnaspi.dll32 to the ripper program folder, it seems to do the tricked and I could ripped those cdg's on the fly.

CDGRipper is not forgiving also on type of CD/DVD drive, Tricerasoft have list of recommended drives but after installing wnaspi32.dll every drives seems to be compatible to read cdg's. I also had Power CDG Burner 1.4.12 which ripped and burned cdg by www. ************ on which is great on ripping cdg's and very forgiving on compatibility issues. Just happen to have to ripping for ten years now, way before I was introduced to Hoster. I had Hoster for 5 years and very, very pleased with it.

Before hoster, I used to have vocal cancel and pitch controller hardware because other software would not do all the trick for true karaoke function. Now with Hoster 3.321 (and so older version) I only have my computer with Hoster, External Harddrive for all my karaoke and music files and the mixers.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by OneEskalera

I have Hp Pavillion DV6426US with Vista Home Premium with TSST Corp. CD/DVDW TS - L632M ATA device. I used Isobuster to ripped my VCD and CDGRipper 1.012 by Tricerasoft to ripped my CDG and had not yet encountered any problem on ripping.

On my other desktop computers though (custom built) I have dvd drives that would not ripped cdg's (Pioneer and Sony) but when I copied and installed wnaspi.dll32 to the ripper program folder, it seems to do the tricked and I could ripped those cdg's on the fly.

Thanks for responding. I have also been ripping for 8 years now using MicroStudio. I always used my Plextor drive. It seems I have the same (next one up) HP laptop with Vista. I have a question about the .DLL file you installed - Does the desktops you added this to have Vista or XP? How did you "install" it. Do you think it would help if I added it to my HP Vista laptop?

[Skybird74]

BAD DRIVE - I've done a lot of research & think HP just put in a cheap drive in this laptop. Maybe it's because I purchased it at Circuit City. At any rate, it is a Matshita. There is no support, drivers, or anything else for it & I found dozens of complaints by other users all over the net. So I doubt if "codecs" will solve this problem.
I'll just use my external Plextor.

[OneEskalera]

Thanks for responding. I have also been ripping for 8 years now using MicroStudio. I always used my Plextor drive. It seems I have the same (next one up) HP laptop with Vista. I have a question about the .DLL file you installed - Does the desktops you added this to have Vista or XP? How did you "install" it. Do you think it would help if I added it to my HP Vista laptop?

It's worth a try, because I had remembered having the same problem with my other hp laptop with just cd/r -rw( I gave that to my daughter ) then when I copied wnaspi32.dll file to ripper program it made my drive compatible for cdg. But not all drive have the same characteristic. I also have an external cd/dvd drive (I just made - pioneer dvd double layer) at first it would not ripped cdg (not cdg compatible) but when I copied that wnaspi32.dll file to my cdgripper program folder, it did the trick. I encountered that work around long time ago when I was searching for the solution to cdg compatible drive.

I haven't had the chance to use microstudio to ripped my cdg's, even though I also have that program.

I also got my Hp laptop from Circuit City and paid cheap prize and I'm lucky everything seems to be CDG compatible.

Perhap you could replace your cd/dvd drive with cdg compatible one, or if it's still under warrantee ask Hp to replace it. Last resort is to have an usb external drive. I had it both in XP and in Vista.