What kind of AV port is this?
/proxy.php?image=https://i.imgur.com/OLllaCI.jpg&hash=fceded806d0c28d6cca029ca12716685This is the AV port of my JVC Mini DV camcorder, I've been looking for a way to record tape footage onto my PC, however in all the guides I've found online you either need a firewire port (which my laptop doesn't include), or the AV port is that of an aux input. I'd just like to know so I can look for a cable to use for it.
Thanks That looks to be a micro USB port.... which is not going to work when it comes to transferring your DV video footage to your computer.
It's probably used to copy still photos to a PC- but NOT DV video.
There are Firewire to USB cables available, but you need to know that they will not work if you try to connect a Firewire camcorder output to a laptop USB input to try and transfer video footage that way.
There are only 3 ways of getting your video tape footage onto a computer....
The best way (with absolutely no quality loss) is the use Firewire. Not easy - in fact almost impossible - with modern laptops.
The 2nd way (with some loss of quality) is to use the AV output jack from the camcorder (not the connector you've shown)and to then connect to the laptop with something like an EZcap analogue capture device -- See HERE
The 3rd way is to get the tapes transferredto disc or drive professionally -- can be cost effective with small numbers of tapes?
To get the full quality though you really need to use Firewire....Firewire cards for desktop PCs are still cheap.. If you have access to an old PC (doesn't need to be very high spec) you can use a firewire card fitted to that, and then transfer your tapes to the PC hard drive.
Once you have those files (which take up around 13GB per hour of footage) you can then transfer them to your laptop for storage - via USB!
But you cannot use USB to actually 'capture' the DV tapes initially...
I know , it's bl***y annoying! data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 It looks the same shape as an HDMI port, there are a number of sizes of these. Take a look here.
sizes of hdmi ports - BT Yahoo Image Search results My first thought was that it looked to berr an HDMI port, but AFAIK miniDV camcorders didn't have HDMI outputs.
Then looking closer I realised it is most likely a Mini-AB USB port - see pics of all the USB ports here - USB (Physical) - Wikipedia
Mark. No its an AV port it has more individual connectors than USB.
Even if you get the right lead though it won't help you without buying an analog capture device for your laptop.
The OP didn't give the model number but there a variety of AV leads all ending up with Composite, Stereo and S-video normally. Well it could be this cable (or similar)
Original JVC component cable GY HM100 GZ HD300 X900 HD320 HM200QAM1179-001 | eBay
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