# Anyone have (or remember) a 2000 or so Sony camcorder? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819 "2025-03-19T14:16:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/1 "2025-03-19T14:16:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/2 "2025-03-19T15:11:49Z")
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](https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-restore-dolby-digital-ac-3-support-in-windows-11-24h2/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/3 "2025-03-19T15:24:31Z")
I do have Windows 11, I’ll check that, tks ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/4 "2025-03-19T15:29:47Z")
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.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJFKpTvzPI) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/5 "2025-03-19T16:48:47Z")
Unfortunately it only allows you to play files with that codec. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-or-remember-a-2000-or-so-sony-camcorder/1015819/6 "2025-03-19T19:37:50Z")
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.