Using Hoster for Video's???

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Doug, you can buy DVDs And VCDs for karaoke at just about every karaoke store.
VCDs are easy to use with hoster, just copy and past to your hard drive.
and they are as legal as CDGs to use. Bob

[billyo]

i got a few vcd's maybe about 1,000 songs, imported it as a dat.file, and i have it on my c:drive don't have any problems playing it through hoster, just click on the video tab and hoster will find it..

[Doug Bracey]

What I'm talking about is Music Videos not karaoke Videos.
Where can I buy Music videos that I can transfer to my ext hard drive using my hoster program and then play them so people can have visual music as well as hearing the song.

[oncall]

Doug,
I use Promo Only for my dj music and video's. Just got cool halloween dance videos so that is gonna be great filler

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

What I'm talking about is Music Videos not karaoke Videos.

my best bet would be bestbuy/circuit city/or fyi...i don't really used music videos nor buy reg. cd' from a store.. ( i get all my songs form itunes )

[Doug Bracey]

I bought a music video from itunes and it will not let me do anything with it other than play it on the computer that i purchased it on.
How do you manipulte them after you buy them from itunes?
Wouldn't buying them from Promo only be better and then can you rip them into hoster like we do the cdg's?
That way we wouldn't have to go through the itunes headaches of priority.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

I bought a music video from itunes and it will not let me do anything with it other than play it on the computer that i purchased it on.
How do you manipulte them after you buy them from itunes?
Wouldn't buying them from Promo only be better and then can you rip them into hoster like we do the cdg's?
That way we wouldn't have to go through the itunes headaches of priority.

Importing videos of any kind into Hoster permanently is not available yet.

[mindonstrike]

Generally speaking most legal sources of music videos (especially current top 40 stuff) are subscription services. They do not sell the videos, They only give you the right to play them in public (subject to certain conditions)while your subscription is current. In theory if you let your subscription lapse you are supposed to send the videos back and stop showing them in public. These are record company rules.

I used to subscribe to Promo only and highly recomend them. Promo Only used to have some stuff that you could buy outright, but I'm not sure anymore.

Venuevj.com is a subscription service with downloadable content but I've never used them so I don't know much more than that.

You can also buy DVD music videos from most anywhere with a decent music selection, Walmart etc.

The videos avaialble from itunes and others are often copyprotected requireing a license be on your computer for the songs, which is why it only plays on the computer it was downloaded onto.