Trying to find AV cable for vintage camcorder

[Trix]

Hey all. This probably isn't the right section for this, and I'm half convinced this may not even be the right forum in general. But, gotta start somewhere.
I have a Hitachi VM3100a camcorder, vhs. What I'd like to do is use this on my PC for budget streaming, but I need the AV cable. I have googled til my fingers were raw lol, and for the life of me I can't find them anywhere.
I'm hoping someone here knows where I can get them, or alternatively know the proper web forum to go asking.
Thanks for your time

[redwudz]

This looks like what you need. I assume this jack is the only A/V out. If so, that's a radio frequency modulator to hook to a TV antenna input.
May not work on newer TVs as it's analog and newer TVs are digital. There are several of those camcorders on Ebay and you could buy a
'parts' unit that would be non-working just to get a modulator. Some photos of the camera and modulator.

And welcome to our forums.

[JVRaines]

Using the modulator will seriously degrade image quality. Two of those pins in the A/V OUT jack carry composite (CVBS) video. I would find a matching plug (or cut the plug off the Hitachi modulator) and make a Frankencable with an RCA (phono) plug on the other end, once you figure out which conductors have the video signal.

[Cornucopia]

Looks like that is a mini-DIN 7 pin plug (similar to PS2, or S-Video styles). You could probably solder together a stock plug with adapter RCA cables (composite, L/R/mono audio) if you knew the pin-out mappings (should be in some manual).

Scott

[redwudz]

If the modulator doesn't work for the OP, they could probably pull the cover off and see which leads are for composite video and audio out and
make up a new cable or use the cable to the modulator. The modulator appears to be bi-directional and likely has an 'in and out' switch.
I believe it can record from a VCR RF output.

The manual seems to be available, but they want about $5 US for it. Some similar models seem to have RCA output/inputs for AV under a cover,
though I didn't see any in the Ebay photos of the VM3100A. And I was unable also to find a AV to RCA cable to fit that socket.

They apparently made a lot of models in the VM series.

I agree the modulator output would be poor quality.