Mono to Stereo

[cubanitolatino]

When I capture my video from my Hi8 camera to my hard drive thru my Plextor CoverterX PX-AV100U the sound gets recorded without problems but when I burn the movie the sound is broken on some tvs. I have to add that my camera has a mono output (meaning one sound output) and I only get the problem when I split the output to stereo thru a Y cable spliter. If I use the one output without the splitter and plug it into the left or right input it works without a problem....anybody knows how to split the sound without getting this problem....?

[Soopafresh]

Your splitter might be stereo to begin with - in which case only one channel will go through.

Something like THIS will NOT work

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[guns1inger]

Capture it with one channel. Demux the audio (virtualdub, save as wav), then load it into an audio editor. If it loads as 2 channel with one empty, copy the full over the empty. If it loads as a mono track, find the option to create a 2 channel mono track. Save the results, then remux (virtualdub again).

[hsugawar]

Your capturing device's audio input may have too low impedance for the camera's audio output to drive. You may wish to try 1) to get audio output from the headphone output or 2) to insert a small resister of 10 KOhms or so in seriese into the connection like below. In either case, you may need to adjust the audio level.

Camcorder Out >---/\/\/\/\--> Y-splitter

hiro

[cubanitolatino]

This's what I've tried so far....

-recorded audio thru mic input(mono)...didn't work....

- recorded using left input which works but it plays when burned on one channel only, and used Sonic Foundry ACID 4.0 to create a 2 channel audio file....didn't work

Anything else I should try?