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[topogigo]

How do you copy from a mini disc handycam onto a pc?
The model handycam i have got does not have a usb. I know i can record to a vhs or a dvd recorder, but where do you connect those red, white and yellow leads into a pc?

[ACtheTROLL]

maybe you don't

It's all down to your graphics card .... no connectors ... no chance.
look round the back .... generally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_and_video_c onnector
and/or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMS-59

plus a little circular rca socket ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RCA_Connect or_%28photo%29.jpg

(similar to mouse and keyboard connectors)
which may have come with the PC ....
if not .... (I hate to say it but ...) PC World are your best bet

if no connector
you can get various usb analog-digital converters ... but they're not free ....

[buckoneton]

Your handycam should have a Digital Video (DV) out, sometimes known as a firewire or a IEEE 1394. (This connection is a lot faster than a USB anyway). Then if your PC dosent have the above connection, you will then have to fit a card in it, very easy, you can buy them from Amazon = http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-7 684498-4947066?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-ke ywords=firewire+card&Go.x=8&Go.y=6

[rojash]

If by mini-disk you mean mini DVD, you just pop the disk out and put it in your PC's DVD drive (that's what that smaller sunken circle in the middle of the tray is for!)

[topogigo]

Thanks people for your answers.
Rojash, i can't believe that you had to point out something so obvious to me, how could i have missed that one? It is a good job someone is awake out there...
I thank you!!!!