how to only capture audio from DV source ?

[BeachNut]

I'm trying to capture only audio from a digital video source. So far the way I've been doing it is to capture the video & audio together then use TMPGEnc to separate the video & audio when it encodes. I'm sure there must be a better way ? Any help please.

[teegee420]

Use the RCA left and right output from your cam. You will need a y-adapter that has the male RCA connectors on one end and a female 1/8" stereo headphone connector on the other. You will also need an audio connector that has a 1/8" male stereo headphone plug on each end. One end goes into the y-adapter coming out of your cam and the other end goes into your PC's soundcard auxilliary input. Both the cables can be found at Radio Shack for around $5. Then use any software that allows you to record from your soundcard's input such as Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition.

[northcat_8]

Yea, what Teegee said.

Although I do the same thing as you do, I capture the audio and video together but I use Sonic Foundry or CoolEdit 2000 to get just the audio, that way I have the option of output formats, I usually only want wav or mp3.

[Will Hay]

Save as DV, open in Virtualdub and select 'save wav'.
Will

[Dragonsf]

Do as Will said.There is no better way, as DV audio always needs Video for synch too.With DV, audio "capture" alone is not possible.

[Baldrick]

please don't cross post.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203345