Dear VideoLAN Team,
I was pleased to see some work on CD+G support in VLC. I would love to use VLC to play and transcode CD+G files. I tried the latest nightly build available to me on the web site, vlc-0.9.0-git-20080320-0003-win32. I opened an MP3 file and it automatically found the CDG subtitles file. Selecting the subtitle file manually also produces both the audio and video (CDG) playback. Using the transcode wizard does not work, and produces the below error text for me. I assume the GUI is building the command string incorrectly?
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File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file ""M:\karaoke\T\Tim McGraw\If You're Reading This.mp3" :sub-file="M:/karaoke/T/Tim McGraw/If You're Reading This.cdg" :subsdec-align=0 :freetype-rel-fontsize=16".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL '"M:\karaoke\T\Tim McGraw\If You're Reading This.mp3" :sub-file="M:/karaoke/T/Tim McGraw/If You're Reading This.cdg" :subsdec-align=0 :freetype-rel-fontsize=16'. Check the log for details.
In the two cases where playback works, the audio works perfectly. The video appears on the screen but only the left-most 1/4th of the video is displayed, and that 1/4th is repeated four times adjacently from left to right. The remaining right-most 3/4th of the content is not shown on the display. I wish I could get the transcode "working" so I could supply an example of the output.
In addition to the video output error, CPU use seems very high while playing MP3+CDG. These figures are relative to my hardware, of course, but I see about 4% CPU usage when playing mpeg4+AAC (iTunes-compatible) videos in VLC. Playing MP3+CDG uses about 25% CPU.
I would be happy to supply a CDG file (as some others have offered) for the developer who has worked on CD+G support, or would also PayPal them so they can purchase a karaoke song from a web site so their test content is properly licensed. I can test this again anytime as well.
Kind regards