Do you want to play VCD and/or DVD discs?

[admin]

We will support VCD and DVD disc playing... first from the actual discs. I know, that is slow, but it will get you at least doing everything you want from Hoster.

NOTE: This will require our DVD+R Drive as CDG only drives will not play DVD. Yes, this drive can do CDG, VCD and DVD.

We will later add an import function to bring the VCD and DVD tracks into the hard drive, store them, and add them to the Songs Database.

Now some questions for you folks.

1. Do you want them in the Songs Database so you can use the Add HD Track dialog to find and place them into the Playlist?

2. Do you want to print them both in your Songbooks? Yes, No, or option to select Yes/No?

3. Our Main Database does not have any records for VCD or DVD discs. Is it OK with you to type in all the data for these discs, and do you want anything different than we already provide in the Import Tab fields (Brand-DiscID-Track-Songname-Artist)?

When you answer, please number your answers 1, 2 and 3.

[gduns - with the Lord]

Personaly I wont be pickey,
1. yes
2. yes
3. yes, I use cut and paste from excel sometimes as it is.

[nitelife]

1. In the song database hmmm. I would want them to be easily accessable by the program, but I think the song database would be the wrong location. adding them to the database would only cause confusion while searching for songs during a show. How would you tell the difference between your WMA files...KMA files.....and video files....if you are using your drop down boxes to locate a song during a show....Just too messy !!
A better option would be to separate the folders where each are stored creating a separate database for each...and a separate button to access each for loading into the playlist...much the same as the add HD TRACK & ADD CD track are separated.
2. List the files in the songbook? DEFINATELY NOT !! playing videos or music files are at the hosts discretion, and listing them all in the songbooks would take up too much space, and add to customer confusion when they are looking for a song to sing. Karaoke is the main part of the show...video files or DJ music is usually used as a fill in during slow periods.
3. Is it OK to enter the file information manually? Sure it is ! All you need to fill in is an abreviated name to clue you in as to what the file is. Don't need anything fancy in these headers. Just Song Name...possibly artist...no need for excessive information for playing these files...just a reminder of what you've loaded.

[crazycarl]

I too have many Vcd and would like to play them. Not important to download Dvd Into hard drives
Thanks Crazycarl

[Stillwater]

I went on the forum looking for an answer for this very subject. I have a few VCD disk that I have been using for years and I would like to include them in my Hoster data base. I would have to buy many CDG disk to find the songs that I can't import at the moment. The sooner you implement this feature the better.
I really don't see a big demand for playing VCD disk. This format is old and I don't believe too many people will be bring me a VCD disk to play at a job.

[Big KJ]

Hi to all

I really would like the possibility to use VCDs under Hoster the very same way we can use CDGs. Remember that for some non english speaking countries VCDs used to be and still are the most usual format for Karaoke discs.

After all why don't implement that feature and let each user to decide if they'll use it or not?

Please do implement VCD using under Hoster, I mean not only playing but storage too on the hard drive. Hard drives are inexpensives nowadays.

Also Multiplex handling, by the simple choosing of Left/Right/Both audio channels would be a must.

Thanks

[quaizywabbit]

I would very much like the option to import vcd/dvd files for use in hoster.

Primarily for company intro's, advertising, and outro's.

I'd like to have a means of setting these up to run automatically
at specifiable points in the show(ie..have the company intro play first, perhaps then a advertisement(drink specials) then on to the rotation. At periodic intervals of singers i'd like to have a choice of ads to run before the next singer starts. and the outro added automatically by the host specifying who the last singer is.

These "utility" videos should NOT be in the song database, but perhaps a separate"utilities"database(keep em' out of the songbook, and makes em' easier to search.)

all other vcd/dvd material should be put into a temp buffer as stated by admin.


I hope what I've said makes sense to y'all.

[sevekj]

I would like to be able to play VCD with multiplex facillity in the Hoster program.

I would like to be able to play DVDs in the Hoster program.

Before Hoster I list all of my songs with the mfg abbreviation 2 code letter after the disc number in my collection. There was a time that I had interest in the original footage karaoke (now banned) but I still have them in my collection also I have a few mega discs, I don't want to have to seperate them from my original collection, but I number those discs with a MP for multiplex
and that lets me know right away that it is a video disc.
I think that you should put a spot in the data base for MPV (Multi Plex Video) and let everyone just type in their own numbers and titles, that would lesson the confusion as far as the data base is concerned. But would still seperate them from the rest.

My most picked video is from original footage, Nancy Sinatra (These Boots Are Made For Walkin), Roberta Flack (Killing Me Softly) where the video is real footage of the original video starring the Real Artist performing the song, great novelty!!
Also space is no concern, hard drives and external storage is booming. If you have the collection big enough then get the storage required for it, that's my say.
Thanks,

Seve

[sevekj]

Yes make seperat data base for DVD music and ADs that you do not want to appear in the books, of course.


Seve

Sevekj

[mooman]

Yes to VCD
Bigger yes to DVD

The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the Devil's own satanic herd! - Edmund Blackadder

[songpony]

I've seen concern voiced regarding multiplex disks (at least VCD multiplex disks), but I've seen no response as to whether this capability is available or not. I've just purchased Hoster (but haven't yet received the download), and am wondering if it works for non-VCD multiplexed disks (where you can select Right-Channel, Left-Channel, or Both). Thanks.

[Eric Whitehouse]

Are there plans to support Divx when Hoster 3.200 is released ?

[UPNext]

I would like to see support for both DVD and VCD formats.

[Digital Party]

Although not a priority right now............

Yes on the VCD. Lots of VCD's in other countries vise the US.

Yes on the DVD.

[lmcmains]

This is posted on MTU News site

Hoster™ 3.120
This release fixes a number of bug fixes and playing a VCD or DVD disc. The security has been loosened up and problems with USB devices causing "Serial Number Mismatch" error messages have been fixed. V3.120 is a free upgrade to all who own Hoster 3.1. This replaces the prior announced version 3.200, which has been split between 3.120 and 3.300.

[Karaoke John]

I have been patiently waiting for this feature for weeks now and thought that it would be on hoster version 3.2.
I don't have any VCD's but do have a few DVD's and would love to be able to play them through Hoster it doesn't matter how. Right now I have to use a separate DVD player to play them. Which means switching to it during a show, which throws off the rotation because the singer isn't listed on the SND and then switching back to laptop. Just having a feature such as when someone brings you a disk to play which by the way works with regular CD's as well , I tried it at one of my regular gigs and it worked! I was able to place that singer in the SND I typed in the name of the song manually and played her Audio CD that she sang from through hoster using the temporary import file. Point is being able to play VCD and DVD with multiplex (guide vocals) through hoster so to keep rotations running smoothly and not having to go through the intro screens that some of my DVD's have would be great. I have one disk that the intro screen and credits screen is over a minute and a half long. That really slows down the show. I also don't care about having them in the song book I already use a different program for making songbooks and they are already in all my song books.
Yes to VCD
Yes To DVD
Anyway you can make it work.
John

[riktaylor]

And when I cut them out, they cut out...

[MTUSUPPORT]

Hoster 3.120 will play VCD. Read More here, released 9-20-05.

[Karaoke John]

When Is Hoster version 3.2 going to be out? I thought I read a thread from Admin that it would be out on September 1st.
Still patiently waiting
John

[George]

Look at the post just above yours