No Audio on capture from DVD Camcorder

I am trying to capture video from my Panasonic camcorder. The video is
captured fine but the avi files created do not have any audio. The
audio plays fine on my laptop's speakers during the recording/capturing
time. I have used Roxio and Ulead both have the same problem. However,
Window Moviemaker does not have problems. I tried Sonic and it gives a
video decoder error.

Need to make home video DVDs and send out overseas to my parents for
Christmas. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Astro

Download virtualdub freeware and load your avi.
Then select File-File Informations and read what virtualdub reports about
the audio part of your movie.
You should see whether there is audio at all and how it is coded.
Regards
Peter

"Astro" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I am trying to capture video from my Panasonic camcorder. The video is
> captured fine but the avi files created do not have any audio. The
> audio plays fine on my laptop's speakers during the recording/capturing
> time. I have used Roxio and Ulead both have the same problem. However,
> Window Moviemaker does not have problems. I tried Sonic and it gives a
> video decoder error.
>
> Need to make home video DVDs and send out overseas to my parents for
> Christmas. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>

Peter, thanks for the tip. I download Virtualdub and it shows there is
no compression. The Audio is uncompressed PCM format. I am able to hear
the Audio when I playback the clips in Virtualdub but can't hear
anything in any other player (roxio, sonic, Windows Media Player,
Ulead, etc). IWould you be able to help me with the next steps?

Thanks so much.

Astro

Hi
Usually uncompressed audio should not make any problems.
What sample rate does virtualdub show, is it 48000Hz?
Virtualdub allows to extract the audio part as a seperate wav file, you can
do this by selecting File->save wav...
Can windows media player play the wav then?
Regards
Peter

"Astro" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Peter, thanks for the tip. I download Virtualdub and it shows there is
> no compression. The Audio is uncompressed PCM format. I am able to hear
> the Audio when I playback the clips in Virtualdub but can't hear
> anything in any other player (roxio, sonic, Windows Media Player,
> Ulead, etc). IWould you be able to help me with the next steps?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Astro
>

The sample rate is 48000Hz in my file. I saved the audio as wav and it
played (slightly distorted ...i.e with some lags/breaks in between). I
then saved my AVI file under Virtualdub's "Save as AVI" feature. This
the new AVI file created was huge (10x) and the audio and video played
with the same slight distortion as the WAV. For a 25 second clip, here
is the audio stream difference between the two files

Original Audio Layout 76 chunks
New layout 747 chunks
Original Audio Min/avg/max/total frame size :64064/64064/64064 (4755K)
New Audio Min/avg/max/total frame size : 96/6517/96000 (4755K)

I am so lost as to what's going on. How could Virtualdub recognize the
audio and no other software read? Hatsoff to the creators of
VirtualDub. I wish Santa sends one of those to fix my problem.

I am ready to try anything anyone is able to recommend because I may
have to reformat drive and installl everything again if nothing works.

Thanks again Peter.

Hi
The more I read the more I assume that your video file is OK but there is
aproblem on your PC.
Can you send me a short part of the clip by email, I can then have a look
whether it plays fine on my PC or not.
my email address is:
I think its limited to about 10MB so try to send a small clip.
Regards
Peter

"Astro" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> The sample rate is 48000Hz in my file. I saved the audio as wav and it
> played (slightly distorted ...i.e with some lags/breaks in between). I
> then saved my AVI file under Virtualdub's "Save as AVI" feature. This
> the new AVI file created was huge (10x) and the audio and video played
> with the same slight distortion as the WAV. For a 25 second clip, here
> is the audio stream difference between the two files
>
> Original Audio Layout 76 chunks
> New layout 747 chunks
> Original Audio Min/avg/max/total frame size :64064/64064/64064 (4755K)
> New Audio Min/avg/max/total frame size : 96/6517/96000 (4755K)
>
> I am so lost as to what's going on. How could Virtualdub recognize the
> audio and no other software read? Hatsoff to the creators of
> VirtualDub. I wish Santa sends one of those to fix my problem.
>
> I am ready to try anything anyone is able to recommend because I may
> have to reformat drive and installl everything again if nothing works.
>
> Thanks again Peter.
>