No Audio When recording from video

[TechSupp]

Just a shot in the dark, but been asked to copy some video done at Christmas on the school video camera (Samsung VP-D15), installed the Samsung drivers and app from their site but can get video onto the PC but audio only plays back from the camera and does not seem to record with the video. It connects using a USB cable. Checked all the obvious things but can't seem to get audio. Should I see a specific audio driver in the list to select apart from the PC chipset or any other ideas. Not got any other cables to try apart from USB.

[Marci]

Is the footage on the camera on tape or on memory card?

If on memory card, then you're just copying avi or mpg file from it's internal storage via USB - If so it's likely the PC you're using doesn't have the correct audio codecs installed.
Download GSpot and load the vid file into it and see what it says regarding audio codecs installed on your system.

Ideally you want to be recording to tape and capturing it off using firewire rather than USB... (which needs no drivers, just video editing software capable of capturing via firewire)

[TechSupp]

Eventualy sorted it (in a way!) Seems quite a few Samsung users have had this problem (after googling it). In the end I made up a cable from the AV Out socket, spliced it in to a spare audio lead and plugged that in to the Line in on the PC. Set audio torecord from Lin In and hey Presto Audio and Video now recorded :-)

Could I suppose had used Firewire but PC didn't have it and no money to buy a lead (its that tight at the moment!).