First DV Transfer, problems

[jorwex]

I just got my minidv cam and quickly recorded a little video to try and transfer. i was reluctant to use the bundled stuff that jvc included, namely cuz it was bundled, and cuz i couldnt find too much info on it.

so i looked in the tools section and grabbed dvapp, windv, stoik capturer, and dvio.

i tried stoik and used type 2 and opened what i transferred in media player classic, and all was fine, but virtualdub wouldnt play the audio.

is there some dv audio codec that i need? or is the problem specific to virtualdub?

[State Of Mind]

DV audio is uncompressed (WAV). I don't see why VirtualDub wouldn't play it. The best capture program for DV is WinDV. Actually, sometimes if you click Record before the video stream actually starts on the tape, your audio will go. Recapture and wait until you get a solid video stream and not those few garbled frames you get at the very beginning of the tape once you've taped over even once or twice. See if that helps.

[junkmalle]

There are two types of DV AVI files, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 has the DV video and audio, as it comes from the camera, stored in a stream marked as video within the AVI file. Type 2 DV AVI files have a second copy of the audio in a second stream marked as an audio stream.

The reason VirtualDub can't see the audio is because you have a type 1 file. It doesn't know there is audio included in the "video" stream. VirtualDub requries a type 2 DV AVI file. Your capture software probably has a setting that lets you select between type 1 and type 2.

[jorwex]

im preeeeeeeeeettty sure i selected type 2 when transferred the tape over. ill try the whole thing again. i formatted today after i posted that first message, so ill get around to it in the next day or so and post back if i got probs. thanks!

oh yea, one more thing, why when you hit record on these dv capturing programs, does it say zero captured frames, zero dropped frames, and then the seconds counter goes up, and then a few minutes later, the frame counter shoots up?

i didnt read anywhere about that being the case, so when i tried windv and dvio at first (before stoik) i promptly closed them cuz i thought something was wrong. then i tried stoik and walked away from my pc only to find a few mins later that it all went through.

thanks

[taboo]

this may fix it

http://users.tpg.com.au/mtam/install_panvfwdv.htm

I had similar problem, and its all working now

Good luck

PS. Oh, you found solution already. Thats good!

[jorwex]

windvd worked great, cept i wish it wouldnt split the things into separate files. is there anyway to create just one avi?

or is there a joiner that will take all the avi's in a folder and put em all together? i was appending avi's with virtualdub, but thats kinda a pain if theres like 40 files.

i saw that there was an option in windv to join avi's using wildcards, but that looked like that was for SENDING things to the camera.

thanks

[jorwex]

i changed the discontinuity threshold in configuration and it spit out only one file! yay!

now i dont have audio again, and im sure i chose type 2 this time.

it worked out find till i tried to do the one file thing, so im pretty confident in the configuration settings i used.

any ideas? thanks

[MpegEncoder]

i changed the discontinuity threshold in configuration and it spit out only one file! yay!

now i dont have audio again, and im sure i chose type 2 this time.

it worked out find till i tried to do the one file thing, so im pretty confident in the configuration settings i used.

any ideas? thanks

I use my camcorder (using passthrough) to convert VHS to DVD. I've found that if I try to capture actual DV footage from the camcorder tape, the audio gets messed up if the AV cable is still plugged in. Unplug the AV cable (from the VCR to the camcorder) and it works fine.

Don't know if that's you problem, but it baffled me for a while.