Karaoke disks to mp3/cdg to DVD

[Siddu2]

Hi,
It appears that many of us are interested in doing the same thing. That is... taking our collection of CDG karaoke disks and backing them up on our hard drive and then buring them to a DVD.
I have read many posts on this subject in different forums and it looks as though some of your software may be the best solution.
I have purchased from you Power CD burner and Player Pro. Now I am trying to decide on cdg-avi or cdg-mpg.

It appears as though the best option may be to convert my CDG/MP3 files is with cdg-avi using the Xvid codec?

Is it possible to convert all my disks to DVD and have some form of a menu system to play on a std DVD system?

Admin... can you create a "dummies guide" with step by step process for completing this using your software?

How many songs will fit on a DVD using the Xvid codec and how does it look on a TV set?

Thanks in advance for any help from anyone
I love your products here at Power Karaoke

[adam]

If you want to create DVD disc, you have to use MPEG files, and thus you need Power CDG to MPEG Converter. Note however, that we do not provide a software for DVD disc burning. To do this you need DVD authoring software, for example Nero DVD. Please keep in mind that the created MPEG files will take more space that the original MP3+CDG files, so it is not a good method of storage.

[Siddu2]

Thanks for your reply Adam.
I thought my best option may be to convert my CDG/MP3 files is with cdg-avi using the Xvid codec.
What I found in my trials is that the AVI file created with Xvid was a lot smaller than the files created in standard AVI, MPG or AVI with Divx codec. I have only been able to convert part of the song though due to it being the trial version of your program.
How are ppl reading the disks once they create them?
Are they making a menu or submenu on the DVD using a DVD authoring software?
One of your posters said he could fit about 100 songs on a DVD?
Thanks for any input again from anyone.

[adam]

It all depends on what you are aiming for. If you want to create DVD disc you need MPEG file (to my best knowledge). With AVI file you can create a VideoCD disc, that should be readable by any standard DVD player, so you can also try that option. You can fit a lot of songs on a DVD-R disc in a MP3-CDG format, however, I am not sure there a players capable of reading these, unless you want to read those using the computer. Are you sure the poster about 100 songs on a DVD is from us? Maybe you are refering to SuperCDG. It is proprietary format of CAVS and is not supported by our software.

[Guest]

It all depends on what you are aiming for. If you want to create DVD disc you need MPEG file (to my best knowledge). With AVI file you can create a VideoCD disc, that should be readable by any standard DVD player, so you can also try that option. You can fit a lot of songs on a DVD-R disc in a MP3-CDG format, however, I am not sure there a players capable of reading these, unless you want to read those using the computer. Are you sure the poster about 100 songs on a DVD is from us? Maybe you are refering to SuperCDG. It is proprietary format of CAVS and is not supported by our software.

Damn, i never thought of looking at it that way, thanks.

[Siddu2]

Did I get any of my questions really answered?

[admin]

If your machine supports DivX, you can encode to XviD or DivX avi. You put the files into root directory or into subdirectories of a DVD disc. This way you can fit several hundreds songs on a single DVD disc.

If you machine does not support DivX, then you have to use MPEG-2 or MPEG-1. If you used regular DVD compression you will fit approx. 70 minutes using the highest quality. You may use VCD quality and then you will get couple of hours on a DVD disc. Note that you need to use DVD authoring software to create menu though.

[kowboy_karaoke]

do you need special disks to burn the karaoke songs on? and will they play on my karaoke player?

[Holler]

It depends on the format supported by your karaoke player. If CD+G is supported, regular CDRoms would do (silver bottomed appear to work the best). If DVD is only supported, then DVDrom disks and a DVD burner would be nessessary.

What formats does your player support (check your owner's manual)?