No Audio

[Guest]

Hi,
I'm trying to transfer videos from my older Sony VCR to my PC, but I can't
get any audio.
The back of the VCR has two
"line in" and two "line out" ports as well as a single TV connector port.
I'm using a WinTV-PVR 150 person video recorder (card). The card has a TV
connector port, S-video, 3 RCA type ports (red,white,yellow).
I'm using a three prong RCA cable connected to the "line out" port on the
VCR (red unused) and the other end of the cable is plugged into the
corresponding colors in the back of the PC (card). The plugs don't seem to
fit (too small) into my sound card. Should I have an adapter?
I've tried various combinations of wiring as well as choosing "line in" and
"composite" in the audio input source and video input source. Could my audio
device be disabled? All other audio is fine (CD's, games, etc.).
The video is great it's just that there's no sound at all (probably me).
Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Wojo]

Hi,
I'm trying to transfer videos from my older Sony VCR to my PC, but I can't
get any audio.
The back of the VCR has two
"line in" and two "line out" ports as well as a single TV connector port.
I'm using a WinTV-PVR 150 person video recorder (card). The card has a TV
connector port, S-video, 3 RCA type ports (red,white,yellow).
I'm using a three prong RCA cable connected to the "line out" port on the
VCR (red unused) and the other end of the cable is plugged into the
corresponding colors in the back of the PC (card). The plugs don't seem to
fit (too small) into my sound card. Should I have an adapter?
I've tried various combinations of wiring as well as choosing "line in"
and
"composite" in the audio input source and video input source. Could my
audio
device be disabled? All other audio is fine (CD's, games, etc.).
The video is great it's just that there's no sound at all (probably me).
Thanks for any and all help.

The back of the VCR should have the two "line out" ports one being red and
the other being white.
Those are the left and right audio and they can go directly to the red and
white RCA jacks on the recorder card. Then there should also be a yellow
"video out" on the back of the VCR that you connect to the yellow RCA jack
on the TV card. If your VCR does not have a S-Video port then the RCA method
above should give you the best results but you also have the options of
simply connecting the coax connector (TV Connector) on the VCR to the TV
connector on the card using a coaxial cable. This method wouldn't be the
preferred method but there's no reason that it won't work.
You shouldn't need to connect anything to your audio card at all but don't
use Movie Maker to try to capture your video in this fashion but rather use
the software that came with the TV capture card.
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

It seems I'm not the only one that has this problem. When I use the
firewire, the audio transfers fine. there is no audio on composite inputs.
I have tried several varieties (using the rear rca inputs, going to audio
devices in control panel and unmuting the volume, etc.) still no audio.
video looks great though.
Brady

 

[Graham Hughes]

Brady, if you can use firewire succesfully why do you want the lower quality
of analogue capture and the bother of how to get the audio to work?????

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Wojo]

I was wondering the same thing.
Brady the firewire connection is all that you need or want. It gives you
digital video and digital audio whereas using a component hookup like you
are describing gives you analog (much lower quality) audio.
-Wojo