Welcome to DirectX Karaoke Homepage

This project is no longer supported. The developer has moved to Troubadour Karaoke company.

This project is dedicated to Karaoke on the base of Microsoft DirectX technology. We are developing a number of DirectShow filters that allow end-user playing back karaoke files in the standard Windows Media Player without need to look for and/or buy expensive players with complicated GUI.

Due to the advantages of the DirectX technology the filters can be used in a number of other applications. For example, one may use the filters to convert karaoke files into video clips and then write a CD/DVD disc.

We also encourage developers of karaoke applications to reuse the Karaoke-DX since it is modular, configurable and embeddable.

Features of Karaoke For DirectX:

MIDI Karaoke And LRC Karaoke (mp3+lyrics)

• Support for .kar and .lrc file formats in Windows Media Player
• Configurable appearance: colors, font, text formatting, frame layout
• Lyric charset auto-detection
• Support for Thai, Chinese, Japanese and similar languages
• Shell extensions - integration with MS Windows Explorer

CD+G Karaoke

• Support for .bin and .cdg files in Windwos Media Player
• Support a number formats of sound tracks: mp3+g, wma+g, wav+g
• Support for zipped cdg+mp3 files
• Shell extensions - integration with MS Windows Explorer

Other features

• Karaoke can be played back as full-screen video
• Support for play back over HTTP
• Hardware-accelerated video stream mixing
• Configurable backgrounds: solid or gradient fill, still image or video clips!
• Availability for non-standard applications, such as .kar to .avi or .wmv conversion, writing video discs