Computer to VCR?

Does anyone know how to connect a computer to a VCR?

I have an audio-video file on my computer I want to record to my VCR. I also want to go in the other direction too (VCR to PC).

The computer has just one Line In or Line Out jack. But the VCR has a separate jack for both audio and another jack for video. Anyone know how to do this?

Also, does anyone know of any good video editing software?

 

Get an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon Card and buy Ulead Video Studio 6.0 then you can go from VCR to computer, computer to VCR, VCR to CD (assuming a CDR or RW in your machine) or CD to VCR. You can even run an analog Camcorder to your computer and have all of the same permutations.

 

Thanks,

I assume that the Radeon Card has two jacks in back, one for video and one for audio. I'll check it out and maybe the Camcorder idea too.

 

More than that two my friend. Extra cables and connectors, too. Even a handheld remote control. Not just a radeon card, but an All-In-Wonder Radeon. Should cost you $125 - $175 depending on where you buy - and if you get a "white box" version, just make sure you are getting cables and software with it - bare card isn't going to do you much good without the connectors.

 

The All-In-Wonder Radeon Card sounds great. I'll definitely have to check it out.

I wonder if it also does 'windows' THanks,

 

The ATI A-I-W radeon 8500DV has a dongle that plugs into the card. On the dongle there are RCA jacks for audio and video in and out also has S-video in and out SPDIF out and a firewire port and has another firewire port on the back of the card. The retail card comes with Ulead Video Studio 5 and MatchWare Mediator 6.

The card also has cable TV in with a 125 channel TV tuner and a TV guide that is updated via the internet. The radio frequency remote control doubles as a wireless pointing device! I have a Sony HI-FI stereo VHS VCR plugged into the RCA jacks on the dongle. I can play VHS movies on my monitor and record them to the hard drive (that is the reason for 200GB of drive space) and record them back to a blank VHS tape. I can also record DVDs from my DVD drive to VHS tape or hard drive.

My PC is also my bedroom TV


It may do windows I haven't tried that yet!

BTW I just bought an ATI A-I-W radeon 9700 PRO card for the new system that I am building.

On most of the All In Wonder cards (8500DV included) ATI slows down the freq of the GPU and RAM for added stability and heat reduction. They did not do that on the 9700 Pro card it is at the same speed as the regular 9700 Pro, very very fast.

 

Good info there - wasn't aware of any system fequency slowdowns and will certainly research further as I'm running a couple of 7500's and will move on up if this is the case. Thanks.

Also, with Ulead Video Studio 6.0 you can burn those VCR's or hard drive video files to a regular CDR - this version has its own engine - playback on most better non computer DVD players too.

Thanks again for the insight.