Playing a VCD

[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.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by 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.

this is just a suggestion, when i tried to play a vcd at one time it wouldn't play it either, i found out that the vcd was in a diff. "region" look to see if you cd/dvd drive is in the right region..can't remember how i set it up to the right region, maybe someone else can tell you how to set it up..