Digital VCR Recording

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It works fine recording TV programs on ATI 8500, but I want to record
what's playing on the monitor - whether it be a DVD, a CD, or a
streaming video from a web page. I know there are inputs for VCR or
camcorder output, but how would I go about recording just what's on
the monitor? I've tried looping the video output back to the video
input on the card, but that didn't do anything. Perhaps there's a
monitor sold which has composite outputs? I can't seem to understand
why this should be such a difficult thing. Any suggestions?

TIA!!

lynn
 
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"lynn lucas" <lucaslyn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It works fine recording TV programs on ATI 8500, but I want to record
> what's playing on the monitor - whether it be a DVD, a CD, or a
> streaming video from a web page. I know there are inputs for VCR or
> camcorder output, but how would I go about recording just what's on
> the monitor? I've tried looping the video output back to the video
> input on the card, but that didn't do anything. Perhaps there's a
> monitor sold which has composite outputs? I can't seem to understand
> why this should be such a difficult thing. Any suggestions?
>
> TIA!!
>
> lynn

I'm confused. Why would you want to take digital video, display it to an
analog signal and then capture it back to digital?