Karaoke CD+G support?

[kg4dhz]

Sweet, Nerd42. Worked great. Any suggestion where there's a good place for me to learn how to make my own cdg files?

Actually, SourceForge has some interesting programs. search CDG there.

[neot]

I was going to write an LUA add on to try to to put the possibility of converting video into CDG files and came accross this:

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/ ... dg_8c.html

Has the team got plans to add a 'record to CDG' function already, or is this function already possible without my realising?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

No, it isn't possible to create CDG files with vlc.

[superfly86]

http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke/
Here is a opensource app
maybe you can intergrate a part of it in a VLC

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Doesn't export to CDG

[Sand Shark]

Doesn't export to CDG

If you mean video to CDG, doubtful anything ever will. CDG is not a video format. It's a block-graphic format with extremely limited resolution, bandwidth, and color restrictions. The usefuleness of video captured to CDG format would be so limited that I can't imagine anyone going to the trouble of making software to do it.

There is software out there (though not open source that I know of) that does a decent job of converting stills to CDG format within the constraints of the format.

[Retro412]

Thanks for the info. FYI I took a Karaoke zip file unzipped it, chose the mp3 from the folder and it played back the Mp3 synced with the cdg. Pretty cool.
just what i was looking for. Appreciate it.

[JayShoe]

I would like to report two bugs with the MP3+G playback in VLC.

1. ZIP SUPPORT - Because MP3+G is stored in pairs, the pairs are often stored inside of a zip file. People have been doing this for years in order to keep the .mp3 file and the .cdg file together... So inside of the zip file you will find two identically named files - just like you would with a normal mp3+G but it's zipped. VLC will open the zip file, but will play the mp3 first. Then it will play the cdg file. It does NOT play them together and this is a bug. It should check the zip file if it contains any files with the exact name and should play them together - not separately.

2. SEARCHING or ADVANCING the track - When you are playing an mp3+G and you skip around the track using the progress bar. When you do this the graphics from the previous location of the track are left on the screen. Therefore, the track continues to write lyrics or graphics to the screen without first clearing the screen. This results in garbled information on the screen. I would suggest that in order to repair this you should clear the screen after using the progress bar. Don't be concerned that the graphics might not look as intended. After a few short seconds of writing new graphics to the screen the system should catch up and should render the graphics correctly on the screen.

Here is a sample:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/W ... directlink

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I would like to report two bugs with the MP3+G playback in VLC.

1. ZIP SUPPORT - Because MP3+G is stored in pairs, the pairs are often stored inside of a zip file. People have been doing this for years in order to keep the .mp3 file and the .cdg file together... So inside of the zip file you will find two identically named files - just like you would with a normal mp3+G but it's zipped. VLC will open the zip file, but will play the mp3 first. Then it will play the cdg file. It does NOT play them together and this is a bug. It should check the zip file if it contains any files with the exact name and should play them together - not separately.

2. SEARCHING or ADVANCING the track - When you are playing an mp3+G and you skip around the track using the progress bar. When you do this the graphics from the previous location of the track are left on the screen. Therefore, the track continues to write lyrics or graphics to the screen without first clearing the screen. This results in garbled information on the screen. I would suggest that in order to repair this you should clear the screen after using the progress bar. Don't be concerned that the graphics might not look as intended. After a few short seconds of writing new graphics to the screen the system should catch up and should render the graphics correctly on the screen.

Here is a sample:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/W ... directlink

Add those on trac.

[JayShoe]

Ok...


CDG ZIP:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7325

CDG Searching and Advancing
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7326

Thank you for your time and work.

[DeusExMachina]

For the record, both these issues were reported at the beginning of this very thread in 2008/2009, so no fix in 4 years, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

[DeusExMachina]

Good thing I didn't hold my breath.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Seriously, just unzip them.

[bosa60]

Well, I have a working patch with a simple solution. My patch just extracts the string between the last two dots of the filename and sets an internal VLC variable about the language.

So, it works for the cases listed by Dr. Crash

Code: Select all

Some movie.Half-SBS.en.srt => en Some movie.Half-SBS.fr_CH.srt => fr_CH Some movie.Half-SBS.fr_CH-forced.srt => fr_CH

I will try submitting it through the proper channels tomorrow, but if anyone wants to try it out:
https://gist.github.com/4689021

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Not seen it in the "proper channels"

[ByteShare]

It would be nice if it could read the MP3 and CDG correctly from a zip, like in XBMC. I have them all unzipped now but it saves me about 35% of total space to have them compressed and that adds up.

[davecotter]

Zipped Audio+G files still don't work. When you drag eg: a zipped MP3+G file onto VLC, it will properly display both items inside the zip, but when you play the mp3 file, VLC does NOT go find the cdg and play it along with the audio.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, this is known.

[mixmastamyk]

Is there some reason this playback is tied to MP3? I've got a CD+G disk of my collection that I'm ripping to FLAC and not intending to use mp3s. Will it work with others formats?

[mixmastamyk]

Yeah, it works with .flac if .cdg are in the same folder!

Grumble, the encoding software made me make a disk image with cdrdao and create mp3s from it but I can delete all that crap, and it's not VLCs fault of course.

BTW, my CD is 1988's Information Society, and has lots of fun drawings and info in it as well as lyrics. It's not specifically for Karaoke. http://www.cdplusg.com/cdplusg/Main.html

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

flac + cdg was never tested in VLC. DId you have anything special to do?

[Sand Shark]

Yes, this is known

OK, so is it ever going to be fixed? I suspect it's something quite simple, like not all of the files being unzipped at the same time, so the .cdg isn't available when the .mp3 is played. Perhaps with some other types of zipped files, that is the preferred method, so there could be a setting that determines which action is followed.

[DeusExMachina]

After many posts about this issue, and related issues (like the VLC bug where it won't properly play PCM audio via the GUI, and in fact, crashed outright when one tries, and will only work when played from the command line) and the various responses that boil down to "that's how it is, deal with it", it is pretty clear that this is not even considered an issue, and will not be "fixed".
As I said back in 2012, don't hold your breath.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

As for 3.0, we finally support .zip correctly. CD+G would be then doable.

[tbeshr]

@Jean-Baptiste Kempf
I'm new to CD+G - it is something that I am trying to set up for my kids - I have read through this thread back to 2004 and can't find 'Instructions for Dummies' on how to play our CD+G disks using VLC for Mac. I am running VLC Version 2.2.6 Umbrella (Intel 64bit), have disabled iTunes, inserted one of our CD+G disks in the MacBook Pro and all I can get is audio - no text video.

I'm certain that this has been asked many times since 2004, so can you please send a link to instructions for playing these disks (files) with both audio and the lyric text files?

Thanks in advance and thanks for an amazingly versatile video app.