Problem with Video Capture - No sound.

RMS Oceanic · Post by **RMS Oceanic** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:46 am

I have recently dabbled in video capture, and cannot figure out how to get the sound.

The way I capture is I hook up the TV to a scart cable, which turns into an RCA cable at the other end, to the Dazzle 80 DVC device, which is hooked up to a USB port in my computer. I then capture using Windows Movie Maker 2. No matter what I try, I can't get sound. Once I tried connecting the TV's headphone socket to my microphone socket, but the quality was terrible.

Can anyone help?

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:01 am

You need an adapter to take the RCA audio output (I assume you've got a red/white/yellow set of connections coming from your source....if you don't, then that's your problem...) and convert it to a line input. The adapter I have takes the red and white plugs in one side and has a stereo line jack on the other. I insert this jack into my line input on my sound card, and....voila! Sound.

If that doesn't make sense...I can try to explain it better, later.

RMS Oceanic · Post by **RMS Oceanic** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:30 am

I'm not quite sure I understand. The way I do it currently, I connect a scart cable to the scart socket of the TV, and the cable I have has the red, white and yellow plugs at the other end. I then plug these into the red, yellow and white sockets on the Dazzle capture device. Result, footage but no sound. Does that help explain where I'm going wrong?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:21 pm

You might want to check out your Recording properties... Open up your volume control in the lower right and then goto Options|Properties. Set it to record and then hit ok. Make sure Line-In is selected as your recording source. Then close the window down...

Other than that I am not sure...

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:48 pm

THere's no cable that has to go from your capture card to your sound card? Mine does that...unless I use the adapter (it makes the sound better, cuts out the middleman of the capture card).

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:37 am

My old ATI All In Wonder 128 had an internal cable, it'd connect via an internal CD audio wire into the sound card, rather then a loop threw to the line in.

Of course the CD audio in jack for my sound card was in use by my CDROM so that feature was pretty useless.