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Thread ID: 67475 2006-03-29 03:47:00 How to record real player files -> VCR/DVD? jesseycy (1046) Press F1
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441604 2006-03-29 03:47:00 Hi! I have a problem, and hopefully you guys can help me....

Basically, I watch quite a lot of real player video files (don't ask me the source).. I watch that using a old computer, but it is connected to a Sharp LCD TV, which accepts VGA signals (or whatever you call the external monitor signal coming from the laptop)...

So basically, I can watch real player video files, full screen on my TV. Is there any way, to record whatever I'm watching on TV then, to a VCR recorder / DVD recorder? Using the TV Out signal connected to my VCR, I manage to only record the audio on a tape, but not the image signal?

Is there any way to record the image signal as well??? Thanks!
jesseycy (1046)
441605 2006-03-29 04:12:00 What's the source? :eek: Greg (193)
441606 2006-03-29 12:47:00 The source is just a computer, playing real player files...

Basically:

Computer (Playing real player video on screen) -> Showing on LCD TV (it has a monitor input jack, and a RGB TV out jack).

Is there any way to "capture" the audio and video showing on the TV? So I just want to record, audio+video, whatever is showing on the TV (kinda like screen capture), in a VCR / DVD format. I have luck with the audio, but none with the video.
jesseycy (1046)
441607 2006-03-29 13:03:00 Hook the output of the computer directly to the Video Machine. Thats the simplest way of doing it. This will also mean if you alt-tab or bring up the windows menu, you see it on the recorded cassette tape as well :D bob_doe_nz (92)
441608 2006-03-30 10:29:00 But the problem is, for my computer, it only has a "external computer monitor output" (do you call that a VGA jack)? My LCD TV can read that signal fine, so I can watch it on the TV as it has a VGA input jack .

But how can I transfer that onto a VCR?

Thanks so much!
jesseycy (1046)
441609 2006-03-30 10:55:00 Oh, well in that case finding a graphics card with S-Video connection out is probably the best way to do it. bob_doe_nz (92)
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