Question / Help No sound from coming from my vcr to my laptop via capture device

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machine88

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Hello, I am hope someone can help or guide to the right place to get help as I am new to this. I just recently purchased the Honestech VHS to DVD software set. For some reason the software would not capture anything and was about to return the product until I found this software and with the VIDBOX capture device I was able to get video.

The issues now is getting the audio. I have been messing around with the software to see what can be done but I have not has any luck in getting audio.

Does anyone know what I need to do to get the audio running from my vcr to my laptop? Any help you be appreciated.
 
koala

koala

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You need to connect the audio cinch cables from the capture device to your VCR/Camcorder as well as the video cinch (or the black S-Video connector for video). There is a schema in the manual for this.

If done correctly, there should be sound available from the capture device to OBS.

In OBS, you add the capture device with the "Video Capture Device" source. If you scroll down the options, you find a dropdown list with "Audo Output mode". Keep it at "Capture audio only", or revert to this setting if you changed it to something else. This setting will output the audio from the capture device into the internal OBS mixer. At first, you will not hear anything, because it is processed only internally within OBS. In the OBS audio mixer, a new meter for this device should appear. To monitor this audio source, so you hear anything, right-click the meter->advanced audio properties. Change the "Audio Monitoring" setting for this device to "Monitor and Output". This way, it will output to the recording as well as being monitored to your speakers. Additionally, to avoid your regular Windows sounds appearing in the recording, go to OBS Settings->Audio and set every audio device to Disabled. This way only audio from the capture device and nothing else will be recorded by OBS.
 
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machine88

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koala said:
You need to connect the audio cinch cables from the capture device to your VCR/Camcorder as well as the video cinch (or the black S-Video connector for video). There is a schema in the manual for this.

If done correctly, there should be sound available from the capture device to OBS.

In OBS, you add the capture device with the "Video Capture Device" source. If you scroll down the options, you find a dropdown list with "Audo Output mode". Keep it at "Capture audio only", or revert to this setting if you changed it to something else. This setting will output the audio from the capture device into the internal OBS mixer. At first, you will not hear anything, because it is processed only internally within OBS. In the OBS audio mixer, a new meter for this device should appear. To monitor this audio source, so you hear anything, right-click the meter->advanced audio properties. Change the "Audio Monitoring" setting for this device to "Monitor and Output". This way, it will output to the recording as well as being monitored to your speakers. Additionally, to avoid your regular Windows sounds appearing in the recording, go to OBS Settings->Audio and set every audio device to Disabled. This way only audio from the capture device and nothing else will be recorded by OBS.
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Thank you for this information. I gave it a try but still had no luck.
 
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harrier

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What was your solution? I'm having the same issue. If I use VLC to record, audio is there and fine. But I want to use OBS since even VLC people say it's better (ie can directly record mp4). But I've tried a bunch of things, the sound bar shows audio, but I can't hear anything. (While recording or in playback. No sound.) Edited: It is recording audio now, I can't hear it during recording though. Maybe that's by design given that OBS is more for streaming and we are using it for an off label purpose.
 
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Blash651

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Can anyone help me, I’m having this same problem but still not able to record audio (video works fine). Here’s some details to help troubleshoot:
  • Yellow video and white audio cable are hooked up to VCR both on output from the VCR (no option for red cable on vcr, only white audio cable section). Tried with connected red cables and disconnected red cables between the rca and usb connection and no difference
  • In the Advanced Audio Settings for the Video Capture Device I fixed Audio Monitoring setting to “Monitor and Output”. I also tried selecting Mono and checking the volume to be 100%. The audio status is showing as active for the video capture device.
  • Sound bar in OBS audio mixer is not moving for the Video Capture Device but works for mic and desktop audio.


    Seems like to me that there’s no audio coming from the vcr to obs otherwise the sound at would be moving. Not sure if it’s because it only has one source of audio but the usb device has two (red and white).
 
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lil_red

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Blash651 said:
Can anyone help me, I’m having this same problem but still not able to record audio (video works fine). Here’s some details to help troubleshoot:
  • Yellow video and white audio cable are hooked up to VCR both on output from the VCR (no option for red cable on vcr, only white audio cable section). Tried with connected red cables and disconnected red cables between the rca and usb connection and no difference
  • In the Advanced Audio Settings for the Video Capture Device I fixed Audio Monitoring setting to “Monitor and Output”. I also tried selecting Mono and checking the volume to be 100%. The audio status is showing as active for the video capture device.
  • Sound bar in OBS audio mixer is not moving for the Video Capture Device but works for mic and desktop audio.


    Seems like to me that there’s no audio coming from the vcr to obs otherwise the sound at would be moving. Not sure if it’s because it only has one source of audio but the usb device has two (red and white).
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Were you able to fix your issue because I am using the DigitNow USB 2.0 and I am having the same problem I am using a Sony handyCam and only have the options for the yellow and white cables yet there is no audio coming out. The audio bar is OBS is not moving
 
tradchad

tradchad

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Just made an account seeing that there was some people looking for a solution to this. I too had this problem and found a workaround of sorts.

Send the audio feed from the VCR directly into the capture device via the RCA cables but send the video feed to another device first such as a DVD player/recorder (I use SCART for this). Then output that video feed via the two remaining RCA cables to the capture device.
I don't know why this works when a direct connection doesn't but it does for me for whatever reason.

I tried using a SCART to RCA adopter in the VCR directly and this didn't work at all (maybe because it's an analogue signal?)
I also tried sending the audio and video feed to a DVD player and outputting both the audio and video via RCA out but this will not output the audio for some reason. Can't for the life of me figure out why this method doesn't work for the audio feed.

Anyway, hope this helps.
 
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