No audio using the easycap

[crableg]

Hi. I have the easycap capture usb device and try to capture video from vcr. I don't have sound at all. No sound on preview or on capture. I have windows vista 32 bit. I run it on xp mode so the functions stay in memory like the preview sound or I used an rca to jack cable and I plugged it in the mic of my laptop with no result. Can anybody help me?

[crableg]

Nobody can help me?

[usually_quiet]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

[DB83]

What software are you trying to use ?

The easycaps sometimes come with an old version of Ulead Video Studio which will NOT work beyond XP.

Also, why the mic socket ?. Even if the capture software is 'working' it probably does not see that input. Audio should go to the audio-in (pink) socket. If your laptop does not have one of those then you are shot.

[crableg]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

I didn't buy it online. I bought it from a store.

[crableg]

What software are you trying to use ?

The easycaps sometimes come with an old version of Ulead Video Studio which will NOT work beyond XP.

Also, why the mic socket ?. Even if the capture software is 'working' it probably does not see that input. Audio should go to the audio-in (pink) socket. If your laptop does not have one of those then you are shot.

I use Ulead 10. My laptop does'nt have a line in. It has ear phone and mic. I'll try to return it as faulty and see what happens. Can you suggest me a device that will work without any problems?

[DB83]

Yeah. Ulead 10 is well documented not to work properly under Vista. You could look at the dedicated Ulead/Corel forum to see if there is any 'fix'

But my main concern is the audio input. I am not expert here but I would have thought that the quality coming in to the mic port in insufficient for audio/video capture. With that in mind I can hardly recommend another capture device as you could still have the same issues.

[hech54]

Most modern USB capture devices don't require you to use an additional "audio in"....like the Hauppauge USB-Live 2 for example. The provided capture software is NOT that great but it does also work with other software like VirtualDub. I've been using an older version of Magix Movie Edit to capture with it myself.

[crableg]

Thank you all for your answers. I just returned the easycap device to the store I bought it. They will check it at the service and let me know. I'll let you know what happened too.

[usually_quiet]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

I didn't buy it online. I bought it from a store.

No matter where you bought it, it is still a waste of your money. Almost all the cheap capture devices sold under the EasyCap name are poorly made counterfeits of discontinued products once made by a legitimate company. Some of the counterfeits are better than others, but in general the software is on the disc is poor and the hardware itself is inferior, plus finding working drivers for Vista or Windows 7 often requires additional effort, assuming they exist at all.

[crableg]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

I didn't buy it online. I bought it from a store.

No matter where you bought it, it is still a waste of your money. Almost all the cheap capture devices sold under the EasyCap name are poorly made counterfeits of discontinued products once made by a legitimate company. Some of the counterfeits are better than others, but in general the software is on the disc is poor and the hardware itself is inferior, plus finding working drivers for Vista or Windows 7 often requires additional effort, assuming they exist at all.

Can you suggest me an other device that will work without any problems?

[hech54]

Can you suggest me an other device that will work without any problems?

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/350617-No-audio-using-the-easycap?p=2198872&viewful...=1#post2198872

And....the REAL EzCAP(available only here)
http://www.ezcap.tv/usb-video-capture/ezcap116-capture-card?zenid=9mehhngqg7t51il2bomsuqqcl4
Does get pretty good reviews.

"without any problems"?....capturing with a laptop is a problem. Not impossible....but adds to the difficulty.

[jagabo]

Regarding audio on the EasyCap: Audio should be attached to the red and white RCA connectors of the EasyCap, not the mic/line in on the laptop.

[crableg]

Regarding audio on the EasyCap: Audio should be attached to the red and white RCA connectors of the EasyCap, not the mic/line in on the laptop.

I know they should be attached to the red and white RCA connectors of the EasyCap but I read somewhere that if it doesn't work try to connect them directly to the mic or line in and should work.

[crableg]

Can you suggest me an other device that will work without any problems?

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/350617-No-audio-using-the-easycap?p=2198872&viewful...=1#post2198872

And....the REAL EzCAP(available only here)
http://www.ezcap.tv/usb-video-capture/ezcap116-capture-card?zenid=9mehhngqg7t51il2bomsuqqcl4
Does get pretty good reviews.

"without any problems"?....capturing with a laptop is a problem. Not impossible....but adds to the difficulty.

When you say the real EzCAP you mean that the EasyCap I got is a fake one? I don't understand why they sell it then. The one you tell me is a different version. Isn't it?

[hech54]

When you say the real EzCAP you mean that the EasyCap I got is a fake one? I don't understand why they sell it then. The one you tell me is a different version. Isn't it?

I was the second person to tell you that.

Almost all the cheap capture devices sold under the EasyCap name are poorly made counterfeits of discontinued products once made by a legitimate company. Some of the counterfeits are better than others, but in general the software is on the disc is poor and the hardware itself is inferior

[usually_quiet]

Can you suggest me an other device that will work without any problems?

VHS capture can be difficult, no matter which capture device is used. All we can do is suggest devices that will not cause problems themselves and provide decent quality output. Capture software is another consideration. Even if the software that comes with a capture device works, there is often a need to find third-party software that will work better.

The Hauppauge USB-Live 2 is good and is sold in many countries. One of our members also reported good results with the StarTech SVID2USB2 USB 2.0 Video Capture Cable, but that may not be easy to find everywhere. I have an ATI TV Wonder 600 HD USB, which is very good, but it is now discontinued and probably difficult to find in the EU.

Laptops only have one hard drive and typically have less powerful CPUs. That is the reason why is harder to capture successfully with a laptop.

A powerful CPU helps when using a small USB capture device because software is used to encode the captured video and audio. If someone uses a lightly compressed video format to place less demand on a weak CPU, then two hard drives (one for the system and one just for recording the capture) are necessary. Lightly compressed video formats produce very large files, plus you do not want the hard drive you use for capture to be busy with system-related tasks and be unavailable for writing some of your capture data.

[usually_quiet]

Regarding audio on the EasyCap: Audio should be attached to the red and white RCA connectors of the EasyCap, not the mic/line in on the laptop.

I know they should be attached to the red and white RCA connectors of the EasyCap but I read somewhere that if it doesn't work try to connect them directly to the mic or line in and should work.

From what I have read about them, some of the counterfeit EasyCaps do not have hardware capable of digitizing audio. They rely on the computer's sound card for that. Unfortunately, not all computer sound cards work with USB audio input from the EasyCap. People who buy this type of couterfeit EasyCap try to work around the problem using the computer's microphone jack or audio line input. Connecting audio that way sometimes works with capture software that allows using the PC microphone for audio input, except that the audio and video are much more likely to loose synchronization, especially for VHS.

[usually_quiet]

Can you suggest me an other device that will work without any problems?

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/350617-No-audio-using-the-easycap?p=2198872&viewful...=1#post2198872

And....the REAL EzCAP(available only here)
http://www.ezcap.tv/usb-video-capture/ezcap116-capture-card?zenid=9mehhngqg7t51il2bomsuqqcl4
Does get pretty good reviews.

"without any problems"?....capturing with a laptop is a problem. Not impossible....but adds to the difficulty.

When you say the real EzCAP you mean that the EasyCap I got is a fake one? I don't understand why they sell it then. The one you tell me is a different version. Isn't it?

It is just the same as selling copies of designer clothing or counterfeit Rolex watches. They sell the fakes because people are willing to buy them, especially if the price is low. Some of the knockoffs are terrible quality, others are not as bad, but none of them can match the real item.

[Edit]Don't place too much blame the store that sold you the EasyCap. The fake EasyCaps are sold everywhere, and are much easier to find than the real one. The store's buyers probably don't understand the situation. As far as they are concerned, they bought a very popular cheap computer accessory to sell to their customers.

[crableg]

Thank you all for your answers. I'll see what they will tell me at the store and I'll ask them for an other device.

[Smavca]

I used to own an easycap (fake one) to record my gameplays on the PS3 but since the audio was crap, I instead fed the audio coming out of my PS3 straight into my audio card on my pc. I used virtualdub to capture video/audio. You can by cables and splitters at www.monoprice.com.

Hope that helps

A $5 easycap can be very good, you just need to find a working driver online (at least that's that I had to do because I had W7)

[usually_quiet]

I used to own an easycap (fake one) to record my gameplays on the PS3 but since the audio was crap, I instead fed the audio coming out of my PS3 straight into my audio card on my pc. I used virtualdub to capture video/audio. You can by cables and splitters at www.monoprice.com.

Hope that helps

A $5 easycap can be very good, you just need to find a working driver online (at least that's that I had to do because I had W7)

The OP already tried using his laptop's audio input for capture and it failed to work.

There is not one member of this forum with any expertise in video capture using a computer who would agree with you that the fake easycaps are any good. The $5 easycaps have only one virtue, cheapness. In addition to typically having difficulty with audio capture, the fake easycaps don't have good comb filters to deal with dot crawl noise from capturing with a composite video connection.

[sanlyn]

Don't use mic inputs for "normal" 75-ohm audio. Microphone audio output is low and requires some additional in-computer juice to record properly. This means that even if you did get audio from your mic input, it will sound horrible.

[sanlyn]

Oops. Double post.

[crableg]

Hi! I got it working finally! The problem was the driver. They didn't find a problem at the service and they told me to take my laptop there so they can find the problem. They installed the driver from the cd (It didn't recognised the driver when I did it so I downloaded it from the internet). Everything is working great!

[Smavca]

Glad you found a working driver

That's the biggest problem with that $8 capture card but man once you have it working, it beats the other composite capture cards in quality and price.

Have fun!

[DB83]

Got it working ? Fine. Glad to read that.

But to call an easycap a quality product is like comparing a Trabant with the Mercedes.

[usually_quiet]

Glad you found a working driver

That's the biggest problem with that $8 capture card but man once you have it working, it beats the other composite capture cards in quality and price.

Have fun!

It beats other devices in price only. If you think that the quality is good, I'd hate to think what qualifies as a bad product in your mind. You get what you pay for when you buy an EasyCap. The hardware is not as good as it could be. Driver installation is often problematic. There is no manufacturer support available. The software provided is very outdated, and worthless to Windows 7 or Windows 8 users.

[Tocaraca]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

It's not the easycap. It's the newest software. Easycap can record audio.

[usually_quiet]

Nobody can help me?

No. The cheap easycap devices sold online are rubbish as is the capture software provided with them. The audio problem you describe is common. Get another device and stop wasting your time.

It's not the easycap. It's the newest software. Easycap can record audio.

Assuming you are not another idiot troll digging up old threads trying to pick a fight...

Not always. There are several different products sold as EasyCaps. The chips inside are not all the same. Some of the fake EasyCap devices don't include chips with the ability to capture audio and depend upon connecting the audio cable to the PCs sound card. Others have defective drivers that prevent audio capture from working.

None have any manufacturer support, not even a link to update drivers if those provided are incompatible with the operating system in use. Many come with old software that either doesn't work or doesn't work well with any MS OS newer than XP. In that case, buyers have no choice but to use different software.

I'll stand by my original statement that these devices are inferior products that should be avoided.