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How Do You Record Computer Video to a VCR?

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hackmole

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I've got a duel deck GOVideo VCR connected to my computer and I am using an ATI All In Wonder 128 card with the computer. I want to record to the VCR short computer video clips I've downloaded. Do I need some extra software package to do this that would convert digital video to analogue video. Or, do I need some kind of converter between the VCR and the computer? As a test, I recorded a few minutes of a TV program to the PC with the All in Wonder Card but I still cannot figure out any way to record it to the VCR.
 
it's very simple,, you use the TV-out function of your video card to sent the video from your computer to your vcr. Then you get a y cable converter that will change your sound out-put to the normal RCA composite (red and white) ,, then hook that up to the VCR too. Both the video and sound should be hook up to your VCR video 1 or 2. Then all you have to do is enable your tv-out and and set your vcr on it's video1 or 2 input and wala,, whatever that's showing on your destop right now will be what your vcr will be recording.

 
No it won't. The reason is that your graphics card's TV output, by default, is "Macrovision" copy-protected. The signal is good for viewing on a TV, but there is a background scramble on it that confuses VCRs.

The french word is voila, btw. (With an accent grave on the a, which I can't type here.)
 
The Macrovision should only give him problems when he's trying to copy a copy-protected video ( example copy-protect DVD movie). For all the other videos he should have no problems because they do not have copy-protecting therefore no Macrovison scrambling would be done..,, gaming, video clips, Avi, real media, quicktime, mpeg, VCD etc.

Even if you want to copy dvd movies,, just search for "disable ATI macrovison" in googles or something, you should beable to find a small patch that will disable this feature for you.
 
alternatively run it through a receiver amp first if you have one and upconvert it to S-Video (assuming you VCR has S-Video input...hehe)

edit: should make clear here, your output on the card will be s-video i assume (never used AIW, but normal video cards are s-video) but u need to use an adaptor lead to make it normal video (console/camcorder stylee) lead into the receiver, then upconvert to s-video into your VCR (assuming your amp supports upconversion).......this in most cases can beat Macrovision, but obviously not that useful for DVD's as you lose quality of picture, but for lower quality picture anyway it wont make much difference for some reason...
 
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