Digital VCR Recording

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

"lynn lucas" <lucaslyn RemoveThis @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?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->