Sweet! I have been playing on and off for the last year with MP3 Karaoke software. The standard for ‘pro’ karaoke is CD+G which is CD Audio with embedded graphics (the lyrics). There is an online version of this where the audio is ripped to MP3, and the graphics to a .cdg file. You can play these on your PC with a winamp plugin. The format for .cdg files is fairly simple (the graphics are pretty basic!) and I spent a little time last year writing a decoder for it, with a view to making a Sega Dreamcast karaoke player. That got half-done (as usual), but what I have just finished is a CD+G/MP3 to MPEG1 converter. That means that even if your DVD/VCD player doesn’t understand CD+G, you can still use that data. It’s a little bit of a niche thing, I’ll admit, but I think it’s kind of cool. As soon as I get the MPEG-encoding smoothed out a bit, I’ll put it up for download, probably with source. I don’t think there is any CD+G source around elsewhere, so that’ll be neat.
on May 26th, 2003 at 9:34 am
Hi Howie.
I red your article and i hope that you can help me.
I need to convert a VCD to CD+G format if it
on May 26th, 2003 at 12:22 pm
Sorry - that’s pretty much impossible! CD+G is only 16 colours, and very low resolution. You couldn’t do video with it at all.