No Audio - Camcorder-to-Laptop DVD Recording

[deedee22]

I recorded an event while my Samsung DVD camcorder was connected (via USB) to my laptop (WinXP Pro SP2). The file recorded as .avi. I can see the video, but can't hear the audio. Audio exists because I can split the video from the audio.

Video - Uncompressed, 24 bits, 320x240, 52K frames
Audio - PCM, 48K kHz, 16-bit, stereo, 83M samples
File Format - MS AVI files OpenDML, 8M bytes, 29.975 Frames/sec., 28 minutes

I converted the file to .mpg (using VirtualDub) and still experience the same problem (video, but no audio). I used Ulead Video Studio 9, Nero, Movie Maker, DivX, Video LAN and Roxio 8, without success.

Gspot stat shows corrupt AVI header. Digital Video Repair can't load the file.

If anyone can help me restore the audio, I would appreciate it.

[Baldrick]

this is no dvd authoring. use the general forum if you don't know where to post.

if you extract the audio to wav with virtualdub do you hear any audio then? in virtualdub open the avi, select audio->full processing and file->Save wav.

[stantheman1976]

You can split the audio from the video, but is there actually any sound in the file? Just because you have a sound file doesn't mean it contains anything useful. You're mistake was probably using USB to transfer. I don't know if those DVD dameras even have a firewire connection, but if so use it if you want to do the same thing again.

[Richard_G]

I would suspect the USB connection is for transferring stills only, hence no audio would be sent from that port. The audio will have been recorded on the camcorders disc though, why not just rip that to your laptop?

Unless, you didn't record, you just used the camcorder as a video camera. I don't know much about DVD camcorders (other than the quality sucks), but if you try doing the same with a MiniDV camcorder no audio is output from the camcorder, only video.