JVC GR-850U camcorder -- CHOPPY audio -- help!

[mister]

I have this camcorder and I've tried both 12 and 16 bit audio settings but having horrible
choppy audio.

Using firewire and a Compaq deskpro EN 733mhz P3 with intel onboard audio. (the problem? -- need a sound card maybe?)

Using windows movie maker for capture software.

Both the audio and video sound perfect on the camera's playback.
The video playback is perfect in movie maker but like I say, the audio is VERY bad, very choppy.

Recording in AVI format.

Any clues on what is going on?

THANKS kindly.

[mister]

well -- it's ok if I record as a WMV file in movie maker.

the problem is when I record as an AVI.

any ideas ?

thanks

[minidv2dvd]

it is wav audio on the tape. use winDV to transfer the files off the cam to the computer over your firewire. record to type II avi. you will have DVavi video. try playing with media player classic or vlc. if it still doesn't play well it's time to get a faster pc.

[mister]

Ok -- so for my own education DVI uses it's own format for audio?

Whatever it uses, it must be close to WAV format because although very choppy (sampling rate differences?) --
it is at least intelligible.

So if movie maker allows the option to record as DVI and automatically recognizes my camcorder I wonder why
in the heck it doesn't follow through in the entire process? !!

Typical windows craziness I suppose.

I'll be ok if I just save as WMV as long as I can convert to flash -- seems to me I had trouble with that before -- hence going DVI to start with.

[mister]

By the way -- thanks for the Windv sugggestion -- looks like a simple bare bones way to do it?

IF that works, I'll just uninstall movie maker.

[minidv2dvd]

yes the audio is normal pcm wav that the cam records - normally 12bit 4 channel or 16 bit 2 channel. the winDV files will be DVavi. they will end with .avi and you can import them into whatever you want to use to edit them and then encode to other formats.