Trying to digitize old tapes with OSB studio. No problem with video but getting no sound on the recordings even though the audio monitor shows decible levels. The only solution I have found is to go into the menu on the Sony screen and set to line out, but i don’t see anything like that.
Windows 11 (and possibly later updates of Windows 10) doesn’t have an AC-3 audio codec, and according to some quick Googling Sony camcorders used that codec.
I recently added it to my Win 11 computer, and I used this article to show me how. You can ignore the Plex stuff.
I am pretty sure I recall that Windows Defender wouldn’t let me download the rar file because it thinks it’s a virus. But I’ve had issues with some false positives from them lately so I just turned off Defender for a moment while I downloaded and unzipped.
If you’d like, I’m sure another Doper might be willing to grab the rar file and run it through their non-Defender anti-virus to double check. But I did not get a virus from this file.
I do have Windows 11, I’ll check that, tks
I had a Sony 8mm camcorder back around 2000 and sold it to someone around 2016 that was going to use it for transfer 8mm tapes to digital media. But no, I don’t have a clue except that it had RCA outputs. Here is a link to how someone is doing it.
Unfortunately it only allows you to play files with that codec.
I’ll be damned. After hours of frustration, was able to hear sound on VLC media player by switching default audio settings. Now I’ll just have to find a way to convert the files to another format so I can post on YouTube so everyone can hear. That should not be difficult, I hope
BTW any bluegrass fans here? What I am digitizing are 25 hours or more that my late father recorded at the Galax VA Fiddlers Convention 1999-2004. Not the stage competition, but the people playing in the campgrounds, which is where I spent most of my time when I went to the convention.