No Sound On My Video

[purfleet2000]

Hi Lads, Im very very new to this game, Im trying to transfer vhs tapes onto DVD, I can caputre the video fine but when I play it back there is no sound, I've tried every possable combo of cables and still nothing. This is what I have.

1. V-Stream Expert Capture Card
2. Sound Blaster Audigy

My Cables Are
1. S-Vid from cap card to vid
2. Comp cable from cap card to vid
3. cable with white/red connection from cap card (to audio in) to vid
4. cable from audio out to the blue hole on my sound card.

I've been trying for days now, any help would be great pls.

[Cobra]

You don't say what OS you're running, so I'll assume you have Windows XP.

If you go down to the bottom right of the screen to the system tray, and double click on the speaker icon (volume control) you'll find a whole load of controls. Find "Line In" and make sure it isn't either muted or turned right down.

If you can't see the correct volume slider, go to "Options" and "Properties" to add things like "AUX" and "Microphone".

That is what cured this problem when I had it, but unfortunately there could be a few reasons for this problem.

Good luck,

Cobra

[sacajaweeda]

I'm not familliar with the stuff you're using, but most apps I've used to capture have a control panel somewhere where you can select which source your audio is piped into the capture file from. The defaults never seemed to jive with my hardware setup and I always had to go in and change the source and point it to the right one.

[purfleet2000]

Thanks both, still no joy although the task bar has given me a few more options to play with. The other strange thing is I have 5.1speaks and at the moment Im using a spliter with the audio out cable and the green cable from the speakers, now this spliter is not pluged into the sound card but I still have sound, as soon as I put it into the sound card I lose the video sound but still have the pc sound.

[sacajaweeda]

3. cable with white/red connection from cap card (to audio in) to vid
4. cable from audio out to the blue hole on my sound card.

You should have a cable that necks a pair of composite jacks from the output of whatever your audio source is down to a .125" stereo headphone jack which plugs into your audio input jack on your capture card, and the 878 cards usually ship with a .125" headphone jack pigtail that patches from the audio out on the capture card to the input jack on your sound card. You then open the crossbar in your capture app and select your PC's soundcard as the source. Make sure the line in slider in your PC's audio control panel isn't muted or turned all the way down and you should be getting sound.

If you still don't get anything, maybe you've got a bad cable somewhere, or there's a problem with the audio pass-thru on your capture card.

This of course is assuming your source for audio is actually outputting a signal.

[purfleet2000]

Now im lost!! I have conected my dvd player and its the same story, sound when I capture, but no sound on the play back. Im prety happy that there are no mute ticks etc.

[purfleet2000]

Okay I have tried the card in a different pc and it works fine, could it be confickting with my graphics card?