Karaoke VCD

[AlexD]

Hello everyone,

I have a DVD Player that has the capability to play karaoke (with microfones inlets), and my family love to use it.

I´ve already burned some movie VCDs and they work just fine.

My question today is if it´s possible to make karaoke VCDs using those RealOrche´s .kar or st3. files. I´ve searched the web, and nobody seems to know a simple way to do it. I can´t believe I´m the only one that want to use this feature that more and more is integrated to the Players, so if you´ve already passed through this please share your knoledges with me.

Thanks,

AlexD

[gll99]

My Apex 600ad has a karaoke feature which I tested just to make sure it worked after I bought the unit.

There's a program called Dart Karaoke that supposed to make karaoke.
I think its just words and music ( no background video)

I tried it a while back but I didn't have any music files without the vocals except for some midi files. They have a tool that says you can suppress the voice from recorded songs but I wasn't able to do it.

If all you want is the same as those PC midi karaoke players then I would just screen capture to an avi while the karaoke is playing. How you get the sound might depend if your sound card allows (duplex) playing and recording at the same time within the screen cap app. An older midi player "MIDIOKE" lets you make a wav while it plays. I'm sure I have seen conversion programs that go midi to wav. So if you could do both then you can input both files in tmpg and create an mpg. You have Instant Karaoke.

Lately, I got some good sountracks (mp3) with no voice ON eDonkey and Kazaa but I never went back to Dart to add the text and run some tests.

Look for mpeg Karaoke files on P2P some people have already created some. Since they are already made all you have to do is burn them as VCD.

If I wanted to create my own and if the voice suppression worked in "Dart" I would demux the sountrack from captured music videos and run the audio through the voice suppressor. I would then remux the sountrack back into an mpeg using both tracks. Vocal track 1, no vocal track2. I would add the written words by using any tools that let me write on to the video. "Videowave" for example lets you add text over the video image and select the duration you want the text to display. I would have to do the timing first but I know this would work.