Posted by raida4life on 05/31/06 18:49

I recently had some people helping me out with some video recordings.
Some tapes I got in 8mm and have always been able to transfer these to
VHS or DVD via RCA cables. Similarly I got some that were Digital 8 and
I was able to do likewise.

Recently I got some Mini DV (not Mini DVD) tapes and discovered after
the fact that all of these recordings were done in such a format that
the Audio is not reproducible by any other means than from the guy who
taped these for me. The video always comes through fine, it's just the
audio I am having trouble with. I tried a couple of iterations of
swapping out the audio cables and made sure they were properly
connected.

He left a few untransfered to DVD for me and now I am stuck with Mini
DV tapes that I can not get the sound out of. I suspect these were
recorded in 16 bit Audio, because all of the 12 Bit recordings play
back just fine. I have tried in vain using other camcorders and even
messed with every combination of audio setting on the camcorder with
the RCA jacks, but the Audio just does not come through. I have only
tried using RCA jacks, I am not familiar with other technologies.

If someone can help me figure out how to recover the audio from these
recordings along with the video stream, I would be very thankful.

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