NEED HELP using Video-out to record on a VHS!

[MatthewF01]

I have this spanish project which I have to turn in tomorrow on a VHS...


I filmed it on a reg. film camera, then used the Video Input on my Leadtek Ti4200 to capture it. I edited the film, now I have the final build and want to put it onto a VHS.


I have a VCR hooked up to my PC. the audio is going from line out on my Audigy to the RCA inputs on the VCR.

As far as video goes, I have a split ViVo cable, one piece for inputs, one piece for outputs. So I plugged my yellow RCA cable now into the OUT piece, and the INPUT on the VCR. But when I record, nothing is showing up on the tape...


Isnt there some thing like macrovision or something that disallows me to do this?



Gotta get this done!

 

[Viper96720]

Can you plug the video out into a TV? See if anything is coming out.

 

[MatthewF01]

eh, its not really easily possible. my pc is in a bad place to move a tv..


what if theres nothing coming out?


vid. in works, so it cant be a hardware or driver issue. is there some setting im overlooking?

 

[MatthewF01]

oh, and the whole nView setup thing in the display settings for Nvidia, is in fact detecting that there is a "tv" device connected (vcr in my case...)

its just putting a signal out to it

 

[Viper96720]

Could be macrovision nvidia cards are supposed to have it.

 

[Fallen Kell]

hehe... what you wouldn't give for a "cheap" VCR that is too cheap to implement macrovision

 

[MatthewF01]

damn right!


last night i downloaded TVTool and set it to disable Macrovision, and bingo the VCR was recording the signal..


But seeing as it was only a trial, I was limited to 15 min. of useage (ver. 7.0) and after that MV came back..


At the time when it expired I was only 2/3 finished with transferring my movie...


any solution?

otherwise i have to drag my pc into school tomorrow heheh
[im serious though]

 

[UncleWai]

What you want to do is, test the tv-out to see if it is working.
You can do this by plugging the video out to your video-in.
you should get a rhetorical screen that looks pretty cool.