CD+G on VHS to DVD?

[wetcamelfood]

Hi, I hope someone here can help me with this:

I have a VHS/DVD combo recording deck hooked to my TV & someone I knew 15 years ago had an entertainment set up which allowed him to take some CD's released at the time which had "CD+G" graphics on them (Fleetwood Mac's "Behind the mask", "Lou Reed's "New York", "Bonnie Raitt's "Green light" & "Nine lives" albums, etc.) & record them on to VHS tapes. I still have the VHS tapes but I've lost contact with my friend.

Anyways, I tried to dub these VHS tapes to DVD on my combo deck but the DVD won't kick in when I try to dub them. I tried hooking another VHS deck I have up to my combo deck and record it to DVD that way through Line 2, but the same thing happened (it only records about the first 4 seconds on DVD).

So how can I get this "footage" on to DVD? Does it consider these graphics as a different broadcast signal or something? You wouldn't think so if it let my friend put it on to VHS in the first place but...

Is there a way I can rip the CD's with the CD+G graphics & convert the file to an MPEG file & burn it that way?

Any suggestions are appreciated, as I'm at a dead end on this for now I guess.

Thanks in advance.

[wetcamelfood]

Forgot to say before that my VHS/DVD combo deck (& my other VCR, TV, etc.) is/are in perfect working order besides this, so none of those can be the problem. looking forward to the answers.

[wetcamelfood]

Wanted to give this a bump as a friend told me about Power CD+G to Video Karaoke Converter. I tried the trial version and it converts just the first minute of each track to MPEG and has a watermark throughout the minute. I just have one CD which has CD+G on it & I don't forsee buying any other CD+G discs beyond the one I have so I hope not to have to buy this for $40 just to convert the graphics on the one disc to mpeg. Anyone know of any freeware (or cheaperware, money crunch and all) that could convert these CD+G graphics from this one CD to mpeg?