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Setting up sound through EasyCap USB

Postby KingRemus » 30 Apr 2009 13:29

Ok, I'm trying capture video/audio streams through a EasyCap Video/Audio adapter attached to a Cocoon Sender (sends AV wirelessly from a Transmiter unit (TV) to a Receiver unit (my computer). In VLC I setup the Capture Device as the EasyCap (Video device name) = STK 1150 but i'm not sure what to set the sound too? (audio device name). i don't see EasyCap as an option in the drop down menu? The EasyCap does transmit Video and stereo sound (yellow, red, white cables). I've tried all the options but i cannot get any sound. Video comes through ok, although colours are a bit scrambled (blue faces etc)

Questions, am I doing something fundamentally wrong? OR does VLC not work with EasyCap Adapters?

i have VLC version 0.9.9 and i run Vista 32

Thanks for any help.

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Re: Setting up sound through EasyCap USB

Postby VLC_help » 30 Apr 2009 18:01

If you cannot see the audio capture device in VLC, you cannot use it. There is a feature limitation in VLC Dshow crossbar that might be fixed in future.

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Re: Setting up sound through EasyCap USB

Postby Hibou » 12 May 2009 09:39

There is a bug in the driver shipped with some EasyCap USB devices. This is discussed on the manufacturers WWW site from which you can download the latest drivers eg http://www.szforwardvideo.com/support/Supp_2_2.html
EasyCap devices work well with VideoLan. For example, this script can be used to open EasyCap "USB 2861 Device":
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc --dshow-vdev="USB 2861 Device" --dshow-size=720x576 --open "dshow://"
PS if you need such devices outside China, see: http://www.neutronoptics.com/

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Re: Setting up sound through EasyCap USB

Postby KingRemus » 12 May 2009 11:54

thanks for responses but I've decided to go with AMCAP instead of VLC.

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Re: Setting up sound through EasyCap USB

Postby Hibou » 13 May 2009 03:18

Fine. But you still need the current EasyCap driver for audio to work. Besides, AMCap costs $29 and puts a nasty bar across still captures until you pay :-) $29 is fairly expensive for a rather old update of what was originally free Microsoft demo code :-)


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