Understanding the HOTDOG files on DVD of California electronics

		bigboss97 – Understanding the HOTDOG files on DVD of California electronics bigboss97 Understanding the HOTDOG files on DVD of California electronics - This topic is initiated by the "FAQ": How to Create Midi Disc To Play On Karaoke Player? The discussion came to... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I'm thinking of returning the analysis back to HOTDOG00. woid, Based on your latest finding there is a difference of... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have found out something about the HOTDOG00.DAT file: Starting from address 0x0200 in the file there seems to be a... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Well done! I think this is the break through. The first 4 bytes of each data block is indicating a value (~15-50k)... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I dont think the the second 4 bytes is the song ID, because some song entries have the same second 4 bytes (byte... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I agree with you (after having a closer look). I'll take over the MIDI part because I've internsively worked with MIDI... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 dvd2midi.zip Here is my script for generating MIDI file. I know that what you hear is still not a song, but something... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – DVD2MIDI (script updated) bigboss97 DVD2MIDI (script updated) - dvd2midi.zip It sounds better now, but still far from perfect. Btw, I simply put a tempo in the MIDI file because... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have tried to merge your converter with my song entry reader. I removed the main() functions and put in a separate... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: DVD2MIDI (fixed !!!) bigboss97 Re: DVD2MIDI (fixed !!!) - Still not all MIDI events are handled correctly. dvd2midi.zip Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have updated dvd2Midi to also apply the XOR mask (output to a *.dat file) and map the characters to ascii (output to a... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Here is a new version of dvd2Midi. I realised that the 0/0a byte affects the mapping so this version use different... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Here is the new version of dvd2Midi that will convert the lyrics to readable ASCII!!! Dvd2Midi.zip Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have done some updates to Dvd2Midi. The main changes is the format of the outputfiles. Dvd2Midi.zip The program... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: DVD2MIDI (see Facts & Summary) bigboss97 Re: DVD2MIDI (see Facts & Summary) - I put a cross reference under Facts & Summary to make it easier to be found. Any update of the tool will go to the new... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	moonreflection moonreflection Sorry for not reading all the thread yet. Anyway, I was just playing around with my old project and realize that I can... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Sorry, there's no Spec, that's an "invention" from me @CODE=UNICODE is simply added to tell the player that it's an... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	moonreflection moonreflection After a long break. I finally release decide to release my program and now trying to experiment with this. Since my... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: DVD2MIDI (missing lyric?) bigboss97 Re: DVD2MIDI (missing lyric?) - The routine only extracts ~90% of songs successfully. But I've never had the situation of missing lyric. I'll try the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 So far I understood, we already got the TOC structure, i.e. we can get any song according to HD20 and read the data from... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Lyrics (A LA LA LA LA LONG) bigboss97 Lyrics (A LA LA LA LA LONG) - alala.zip This is the lyric information I extracted from the song SWEAT (A LA LA LA LA LONG) 0x39 0x1F It starts at... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid – Re: Lyrics (Experiment 5 - lyrics timecodes) woid Re: Lyrics (Experiment 5 - lyrics timecodes) - I have noticed that in many songs the lyrics and the music is out of sync. So I made a small tool "adjustTiming" to... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (BLUE SUEDE SHOES) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (BLUE SUEDE SHOES) - I've also found (with soft-player) BLUE SUEDE SHOES is out of sync. This song starts straight with lyrics as well. Will... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 This is not the best solution, but the easiest one. Instead of patching the (absolute) time code in lyrics, I patched... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Now I have tried to reproduce you patch on "blue suede shoes". My attempt failed however. When I play the patched dvd,... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I just checked my .mpd offset 0x12 seems to be correct. Before it crashed did the music start with delay and in sync... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid The music started and seemed to be in sync with the lyrics. On the second screen of lyrics everything froze (one the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I just double checked. Based on the MIDI-log, the 0x7f are in the first time code byte. 00 01 *10* 41 00 Unknown 00... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I managed to find the fault. There was a bug in the updateDvd.cpp file (the implementation of fseek() in cygwin for XP... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (BLUE SUEDE SHOES) Fixed! bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (BLUE SUEDE SHOES) Fixed! - Nice to see it working. Can you branch this to a new thread as fixing lyric asynchrony and give a summery of the two... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Have you got a virtual CD software which can mount the ISO-image? At the moment, I don't have access to all the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Good! Very good that you found a workaround. It seems to be many songs with the same problem with delay. Can you explain... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I had a look in your problem again. But I still have no proper explaination 1) As you said, it could be the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Yes, the new line and space always have the time code 0 which caused some troubles in dvd2midi. I also noticed there's... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Have you had time to look at this closer? Have you found any sync events in the midi part? I tired to look at your... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Not yet, I'm still working on the unicode issue, see another post (later). Yes, I'm using your lpd-file because it's... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have no experiencs with kar-files and soft-player so I didnt fully understand what you mean by synced with... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (timecodes) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (timecodes) - When you create a KAR-file with a MIDI and a text file you have to select the melody track (channel). Then the tool... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Thank you for the expaination. But I am still dont understand the outcome of my previous experiment. How can the tempo... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 In the TXT-file all words are printed in one single line. But when I checked the MIDI file with a player the lyric is... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Ok, maybe there is some other problem with FindLyrStart(). Your version of FindLyrStart() does not work for me on "Moon... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (Experiment 4) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (Experiment 4) - A new candidate: More Than I Can Say In this experiment, the visual changes only occured in YE. 1) There's one thing... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Just double checked exp3, it was: C9<D6>7E 8A 96 0B 00<DD>F7 6C 5C 38<BC>E9 EE 6F D6 was changed instead of C9. So,... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Based on C9 causing S->P and the assumption BC causing E->F, These are the results according to the values of Exp3 and... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Success!!! I have broken the code! I can now decipher the lyrics of all songs to ASCII. I will soon publish the updated... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Well done! Based on exp2(2), the 2 letters (clear text) must have something to do with the coding (mask). This might... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (Mask Length) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (Mask Length) - Since they are the first two letters of the song title they will re-appear at the spot where the song title is stored... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have already figured out a work around to find out the length. What I am looking for is the real way to determine the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 What I want to say is... Maybe there's no length. The mask is terminated by the start of the first 2 characters, i.e.... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I doubt this is the case but it is easy to verify with a new experiment... I would rather think that the length is... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 All my experiments were done on a DVD-RW. That's the "beauty" of our player Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (Experiment 2) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (Experiment 2) - Following patches were done: 1) HD20: "HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN" ==> "HOOXE OF..." 2) HD00: The first 2 readable... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have looked closer to your changes to "SWEAT". This is my explaination: B5 => B6: This is the last byte of the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I didn't mention the details about SW in exp3 because I couldn't conclude anything. I did this: E1 8B<B6>53 DD 40 7E EF... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid This is my explaination: xx E1 8B<B6> 53 DD 40 7E EF 7C<26>81 <67>6D 9B 62 AF B9 58 98 28 2B 0A 00 ... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Lets look more careful at the change of "66 6D 9B 62" => "<67>6D 9B 62" "66 6D 9B 62" is the 8th-11th byte of the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid How did you make the DVD? Do you have to do something special or will any DVD burner program do it? (I have read... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 It's very easy, but slow process. I use Nero (or any other) and burn a disk image. Nero image is not compressed. So,... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (Experiment 3) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (Experiment 3) - I used following 4 songs: More Than A Woman (very bad, because it already contains incorrect characters originally) ... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid The lower case letters seem to be in alpabetical order: 33 (0x21) => 'a' , 34 => 'b' ... 'z' But once again, the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics (Experiment: SWEAT) bigboss97 Re: Lyrics (Experiment: SWEAT) - I burnt a RW with following 3 byte patches (added 1): 00 53 00 57 23 DD<41>7E 88 7C 25<82>13 6D 9B 62 DE B9 58 98 4D 2B... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have also been trying to decode the lyrics. It definetly seems to be encoded in some way. All my attempts to decode... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I've tried to google encoding algorithm. All I found are more security stuff which I don't believe is used in this... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I also tried to google on some encoding algorithms but couldnt find anything to help us. I wonder what the purpose of... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I guess that they want to keep competitors away. Else, I can't see any point not to allow users to create their own... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke I think the reason to push them to hide the lyrics (california)and midi (soncamedia) data is to prevent people from... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid 1) I think we might have different versions of the DVD. The beginning of SWEAT looks like this on my dvd: 00000000:... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid 3) Ok, I think I understand what you mean by similarities. The beginning of each song entry looks like... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I think I am close to a breakthrough with the lyrics. I have discovered that aaaa...aaaa (see previous message) seems... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have started to make a mapping table for "zz" (see previous message). There is a good news and a bad news. The good... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I would guess with mask. It will be a waste to use complex algorithm to scramble text. That's the reason I'm trying to... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I dont buy your explaination why the first 2 letters are in plain text. Why would you need to refer back to HD20? And... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 It was a guess only :-) They don't need to be unique if they are a kind of hash information. Since the list is sorted... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Between: When I play "SWEET (A LA LA LA LA LONG)" (and some other songs too) on my California dvd player the lyrics and... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Haven't tried that song yet. But in some songs, there are some sections which are totally out of sync. Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke This is the layout of California Disk 0) 00.DAT : songs file Organized into 2 levels : a)Super Blocks (from... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Unicode Player bigboss97 Unicode Player - I don't use many (soft) players. But as far as I'm aware of, all the recent players support unicode. How well it's... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Unicode Player (keyword in MIDI) bigboss97 Re: Unicode Player (keyword in MIDI) - After working a little deeper in the player, now I can see the actual problematic in unicode. As I mentioned before, the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke – Midi decoding openkaraoke Midi decoding - Here is the code (subroutine) i used to decode Midi blocks and made them available on karaoke.vietbel.org It's in... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Midi decoding (different tempo) bigboss97 Re: Midi decoding (different tempo) - I'll have a closer look tomorrow, it's midnight now. I found that the channels are running with different tempo. Do... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke I don't understand very well the problem you have with the tempo. Normally the tempo is specified once at the beginning... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I'm not very familiar with that notation. Can you give me a MIDI file with that single track? I want to get the right... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke Please find the kar file with lyrics. DANH_MAT.kar The previous one contains only the tick for lyrics, when I get the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Lyrics bigboss97 Re: Lyrics - I'm a bit confused. Have you been able to "read" the lyrics? btw, www.sonca.midi not found. Honestly, I don't know... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke This is the website for encrypted midi karaoke: http://www.soncamedia.com/ In Vietnam, there are several brands for... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	openkaraoke openkaraoke This is the website for encrypted midi karaoke: http://www.soncamedia.com/ In Vietnam, there are several brands for... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Unicode Karaoke Editor? bigboss97 Unicode Karaoke Editor? - Do you know any free unicode karaoke editor? I use karakan which doesn't support unicode Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 with parameter now. dvd2Midi.zip Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Speculation: I would guess that the song ID from HOTDOG20.DAT and HOTDOG30.DAT is used to index the tables in... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have made some scripts for analysing the HOTDOG00.DAT file. Here is a summary of my findings: I made the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: 10,000 songs still missing? bigboss97 Re: 10,000 songs still missing? - Based on our latest interpretation, are those 10,000 songs still missing? Was that only a marketing trick and they... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Yes, I still think that they are "missing". I havent tired to find out which songs are missing, but it should be... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Lyrics encrypted? bigboss97 Lyrics encrypted? - Btw, we have to start updating the subject because the discussion is getting to complicated. The lyrics might be... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Here is a c-program that will analyse the HOTDOG00.DAT file and find all the song entries. It is not pretty but it does... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 That's also what I thought initially. But I found that it's easier to generate the MIDI (binary) directly. My converter... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 If you put 32 bytes in one line and compare the two versions these are the unmatched lines (line number starts at 3): 3... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Sorry, here is the right data (it's line 66 instead of 76): 3 00000000 ... 18 ... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 When I looked at: 0E 12 31 1F DON'T STOP and followed 0x311f in HOTDOG10. I found there's a 0x00 byte at the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Can you explain again the steps you made? I didnt follow. Did you manage find out something about the structure in... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 You are absolutely right. I know what was my mistake. I'll always find an entry for any position in hotdog10 because... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 They are actually song ID related. Following number are in the song list: 712815 2 BECOME 1 713609 2 TIMES... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	lala lala I got karaoke DVD of California electronic, my friend got the vcd of California electronic (nhac 5 so). It has alot of... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I guess the VCD is older than your DVD, right? You can try the extraction discussed here or it's also possible that it's... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have found out some thing new about the format of HODOG20.DAT. The first 4 bytes of the file is the number of songs... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid The HOTDOG30.DAT have a simular format as HOTDOG20.DAT. HOTDOG30.DAT contains a subset (english and vietnamese) of the... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid HOTDOG10.DAT, HOTDOG11.DAT and HOTDOG12.DAT are identical in both versions of the DVD. I assume they contain something... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I want to gather some of the results here. Let's call the DVD with 30534 songs DVDa and the one with 30926 songs... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Facts & Summary: Tool to export HOTDOG00 data of a single Song bigboss97 Re: Facts & Summary: Tool to export HOTDOG00 data of a single Song - http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-DVD2MIDI-(fixed-!!!)-p11691536.html Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Facts & Summary: HURRAY, the first version of DVD2MIDI is available !!! bigboss97 Re: Facts & Summary: HURRAY, the first version of DVD2MIDI is available !!! - dvd2midi.zip Now we got it! The first version of DVD2MIDI (with lyrics). I'm so happy that I can't wait until I've... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Did you try your changes of key2 on english songs? When I run your version on english songs the lyrics is not correct.... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Facts & Summary: dvd2midi (bug fixes) bigboss97 Re: Facts & Summary: dvd2midi (bug fixes) - dvd2midi.zip 1) Added 0x0a in key2 mask for ASCII mode to filter out unexpected 0x0a in English songs. 2) Adjusted... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 Dvd2Midi.zip Just noticed that ReadLyricDat() is called without the mode parameter which makes the key2 mask no effect... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid Updates of updateDvd. The program will seach a dvd image file for the pattern of a song and replace the song in the dvd... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 As I mentioned, I only tried MORE THAN I CAN SAY. It seems to be okay with that change. When I changed the 1st byte in... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid I have added some more tools for modifing songs and updating image file: Dvd2Midi.zip Here is an example of how... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Facts & Summary: Tools, patching disk image bigboss97 Re: Facts & Summary: Tools, patching disk image - Just a suggestion... When I was doing my experiments I always use a 2nd copy of the image, i.e. the start of the HD00... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 dvd2Midi.zip An updated version for dual-byte lyrics. I've added mapLyric2b() and updated the 2nd mask for the 2nd... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 I did a quick change in my mapLyric() for dual-byte language (Chinese): if ((i % 4) == 0 || (i % 4) == 1) { ... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 – Re: Facts & Summary: Layout of HOTDOG00.DAT bigboss97 Re: Facts & Summary: Layout of HOTDOG00.DAT - http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Understanding-the-HOTDOG-files-on-DVD-of-California-electronics-p11465049.html Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 The first working version of DVD2MIDI: http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=11520529&framed=y Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 There are mainly Vietnamese and 0x05 songs added in DVDb. diff.zip Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	scieman scieman Sir, please post some link on where can i download the HOTDOG20.dat file or maybe upload it so i can download and try to... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	bigboss97 bigboss97 From time o time I've seen hotdog00.zip in eMule network. You might want to try your luck. Be patient and do not give... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid hAnalyse1.c Here is my script for analysing the TOC in the HOTDOG20.DAT file. It is very simple and you have to... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink

	‹	woid woid hAnalyse2.c Revised version... Loading...   Reply More Rate this Message: Reply to author Edit post Delete Print Show in classic view Show in list view (by date) Permalink