Title: Too cheap to encode audio
Product review: This device is only a video encoder. They just bring out the audio to a mini-jack which you get to plug into your sound card, so the sound gets recorded (in theory) from your sound card while the video gets recorded over USB.The problem with this (really cheap) approach is, you will find that after a while the audio gets out of sync with the video; "your lips move, but I can't hear what you say." Until maybe 50 milliseconds later, that is. That's because the audio card uses an onboard crystal timebase to set the audio sample rate, but the video encoder uses a sample rate derived from its internal timebase and sync'd to the video frame rate. These two items can and do vary. If you are recording from tape, especially old hi-8 camcorders, they can vary a lot.This is the CHEAPEST way to make a card like this and it almost never works. Buy something else.
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