Movie maker -- no audio during preview

[mister]

I have a JVC GR-D850U, using firewire and I see my video fine in movie maker preview
but I can't hear any audio at all from my PC.

(Hear the audio fine on the camera itself).

I have motherboard integrated Intel audio and have that selected for both playback and
record. NBothing is muted and all controls are maximum.

(Don't see anything in audio options regarding my firewire card?)

I'm sure it's a simple fix but I can't figure it out.

THANKS kindly for any help.

[jagabo]

This is very common with capture software and DV devices. I don't think there's anything you can do about. Just monitor the audio from the camcorder.

[edDV]

This is very common with capture software and DV devices. I don't think there's anything you can do about. Just monitor the audio from the camcorder.

What happens if you play the DV-AVI file with wmp or VLC?

DV audio is simple uncompressed linear PCM.

[mister]

Unreal.

You would think that with a solid brand name camera (JVC GRD-850), the most popular movie authoring software out there, (movie maker), always updated XP and all the latest media player codecs that a problem like this WOULD NOT EXIST.

Period.

Trying to hear the audio from the camera itself is damn near impossible.


Everyday it's something.

JVC? MICROSOFT? ARE YOU LISTENING?? !!! Do you bench test this ^&%$?



Is there any other software besides movie maker that you think may be worth trying?

I tried WINDV but that is AVI only and those files are huge.

Thanks.

[mister]

By the way, I'm talking about the "preview" mode -- not the finished catured file.

I can hear the audio in the captured file -- but not in the preview mode.

weird?

[jagabo]

This is mostly an accident of history. When DV camcorders first came on the market most PCs could barely keep up with the data arriving at the firewire port. So there was no attempt to separate the audio and video packets. The multiplexed A/V stream was simply captured and saved in an AVI file as a video stream. It became the editing software's job to figure out how to demux the audio later.

[minidv2dvd]

like jagabo says it's done on purpose to help eliminate the chance of dropped frames in the capture process. the correct way to deal with miniDV tapes is to capture the DVavi to the hard drive and then edit/encode it to the final product. and yes the files are supposed to be 13GB/hour.

[mister]

OK. So forget about the WMV approach and possibly go with the WINDV, just to get the file into the computer right?

THEN edit and convert the finished project to whatever format -- FLV etc.

I see what you're saying.


Also, just for kicks I already downloaded "Videospin" -- may compare it to movie maker as an editing program.

Any thoughts on Videospin?

Thanks for the help folks.