No Audio When Capturing Live TV Signal

[timjs]

I'm using Video Studio 11 trial to see if it will meet my needs and I'm trying to capture live TV. The video appears just fine, however I have been trying for the last 2 days to get the audio to work. I have looked over the Knowledge Base and scoured this forum and tried every recommended fix that I could find, but I still can't seem to get the audio along with the video feed.

I am using a device called TV Box that has a coax cable input for the TV signal and a usb cable to output the audio and video signals to the PC. The application that I've used to view TV programs on my PC is InterVideo Win DVR 3. This arrangement has been working just fine for the past 2 years in delivering the audio and video signals as well as performing as a DVR and playback functions.

I have tried new codecs, old codecs, removing codecs to try process of elimination, changing every sound setting in Control Panel, changing any sound related settings in Video Studio and InterVideo Win DVR 3. No luck. The only time Video Studio produces sound is when I open an existing .mpg file and click the play button, that works just fine.

It is confounding that two applications provided by the same manufacturer will not function the same when given the same hardware and software platform. I found one post that said something about Dolby not provided with the trial version of Video Studio, but I don't need Dolby sound, I just want to record some TV shows, take out the commercials and put them on DVD so that I can watch them on my regular old fashioned DVD player when I have time.

Perhaps this application is not capable of this and I should use some other application to accomplish this task? I am totally open to any suggestions, seems like a good application otherwise, but given the level of difficulty just to record a TV show, remove commercials and copy it to a DVD doesn't seem to be worth the effort to use Visual Studio for this purpose. I was also looking forward to using it to edit and consolidate our home video tapes onto DVD, but I don't see that happening if I can't get it to capture TV audio and video.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Tim

[tyamada]

I found a lot of the capture solutions aren't supported by most of the Ulead products.

I usually use the software that came with my capture device to record video to may hard drive and use Video Studio to edit the captured file.

[DVDDoug]

I am using a device called TV Box... The application that I've used to view TV programs on my PC is InterVideo Win DVR 3.

You should continue to use this software for the capture step. I assume that this software came with your hardware. In general, you need to use the software that came with your hardware. Some (most?) capture-hardware and capture-software just don't work together. (Apparently, there are no universal standards for the drivers.)

Once you have a digital audio-video file on your hard drive, you can use the editing and DVD authoring software of your choice. (This Assumes the software works with your particular file format, which you can't always count-on either... There are too many file formats and too many variations of each format.)

...I just want to record some TV shows, take out the commercials and put them on DVD so that I can watch them...

Well... That's 3 different steps, and in fact I use 3 different applications (from 3 different suppliers)! This digital video stuff is not easy, but it should get easier once you figure-out a routine that works with our particular hardware, video-source, file formats, and your project goals. (There are actually 5-steps... Capture, Edit, Encode, Author, Burn.)

I should use some other application to accomplish this task?

Movie Factory may be a better choice for you. (Movie Factory focuses on DVD authoring, whereas Video Studio focuses on video editing.) Or, you might try VideoReDo.

It is confounding that two applications provided by the same manufacturer will not function the same when given the same hardware and software platform.

I agree! But, you may not be aware that InterVideo was acquired by Ulead which was then acquired by Corel... And, it seems anything related to analog is being ignored... All of the effort and attention is going into high-definition and "new features".

[sjj1805]

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[timjs]

Commentary: you all gave very insightful feedback which I greatly appreciate. This all started when I discovered that I could record TV shows with Win DVR (I bought the TV Box so that I could watch TV on my one of my dual monitors when I work late at night). I then sadly assumed that I could just copy the recorded shows from my hard drive to my DVD RW drive. Silly me, I've used PCs since 1978 when I used my first Radio Shack TRS-80, I should've known it couldn't be that simple. So I searched for a program that could record the live video feed and copy it to DVD. Video Studio was one of the more competent and intuitive applications that I kept coming across as I exhaustively searched the Internet for a solution. I again stupidly assumed that if I could see the live TV video feed in the Video Studio capture window, then surely the audio track should be a "piece of cake", after all audio is usually a no-brainer to deal with compared to video...wrong again.

Questions:

1. Do you know of an off-the-shelf application that just does what I described without a lot of expense and extraneous trial and error to get it to work?

2. I know that I can capture video with Win DVR 3 and use Video Studio to edit the captured video and copy it to a useable DVD, but where is the Ad-Zapper feature and can it be used on video file as well as a live video feed?

Thanks again for your help, understading and patience,

Tim

[sjj1805]

Radio Shack TRS-80 - I had a Dragon 32 - I think you will find they are one and the same. the 32 stood for 32 KILObytes of memory, the 80 stood for the screen resolution.

Didn't your "TV Box" come with any software?
If not then I recently bought a USB Digital TV Stick. It came complete with a small aerial and also a copy of "Blaze DTV". The whole lot only cost ¢G10 (British pounds) so you could perhaps do a search for Blaze DTV - it couldn't possibly cost much based upon my above purchase.

Blaze DTV works with my other TV cards and also another USB TV stick so it is not tied to any particular make. It records TV and even has a scheduler so you can set it to record in advance.

Once recorded to your hard drive then VideoStudio will do as you asked, you can remove the adverts etc. and also turn it into a Video DVD.