DV capture from camcorder firewire, divo, no sound?

[overloaded_ide]

I used Divo to capture DV through a firewire to my system.
Video looked good, but no sound??? First I captured from the camcorder with just the firewire attached, no sound.
There IS sound on the tapes! Played back to TV is fine, though I would like to encrease the volume some.

So then I connected the audio cables to the ATI card which is conneted internally to the onboard sound. Still no sound. I thought it might act as a pass through.

I thought since it was DV, (data?) that it would all be in one file from the firewire. What happend?

I was a dummy on this too. I captured 2 hours of tape over the firewire the first time, then the 3 files were about a total of 20gigs AVI. So I ran that through Tmpgenc to convert to Mpeg2. It showed the audio settings, stereo ect.. as if it were there. Then after 4 hours of encoding there was no sound! That's when I checked the AVI files, and they had no sound when played either.

SO totaly new to DV, How do I get my DV camcorder tapes onto my PC using firewire and have sound too?? No info with the camcorder! Just syas connect cable and see software/pc manual (which doesn't exist of course)

Also, as a DV AVI, is this gonna take 4 hours to encode to mpeg2 everytime I do one? Did I do something wrong there too? Is there a faster way to just convert when not doing anything else to it?

Alot of stuff I will just want camcorder to mpeg2 for authoring and not be doing much else.
Though I plan to work on this project ALOT for learning. I need to reduce the red, compensate for washout from bright lights, and also increase volume level since the people were a bit distant. Sound is good, but to low.

I did the first DVD as a composite capture yesterday since I could not get the DV with sound, I'm not happy with it! I'll need 9 of these DVDs and several VHS tapes soon.

Thanks

[Richard_G]

So then I connected the audio cables to the ATI card which is conneted internally to the onboard sound. Still no sound. I thought it might act as a pass through.

I thought since it was DV, (data?) that it would all be in one file from the firewire. What happend?

Yes, you are right, DV should be one file containing both video and audio and the Firewire connection should give you both. The fact that TMPGenc shows the audio settings means that there is an audio component there, it just doesn't have any noise on it!

I'm not familiar with Divo but maybe there is a setting somewhere that means you have told it not to capture audio. This might then explain why you aren't getting audio when you connect the analogue too.

Good luck

[overloaded_ide]

DIVO is extremly simple.
Click file, tiny box opens, browse to location to save capture and type in filename, click capture, turn on device.

No settings or anything! Only used it this once, so far.

It looked great though, only captures while it gets a signal. So click capture and it does nothing till you play the camcorder then it starts capturing. Stop the camcorder Divo stops capturing, start camcorder capture starts.

I love that part of it, no blank screens before or after when your turning stuff on and off, just captures when the signal is present.

I don't know why I have no sound then if I was correct and it should be in the firewire capture!

[overloaded_ide]

This might then explain why you aren't getting audio when you connect the analogue too.

I am getting sound durring an analogue capture, like playback from the camcorder though the ATI AIW card and capturing drect to mpeg2, but not with DV capture.

[tweedledee]

Hi, If you start DVIO first, then you may get no sound. Try starting the camera first and see what happens. I had that problem and this fixed it.