movie2VCR Please I need help

[JustAnotherNewbie]

I need a help.. Please. I have done beautiful movie for my grandmother as birthday present. They are photos and movies and letters etc. it is in mpg format. I made DVDs for family members. However my grandmother got only VCR.. I cannot give her DVD or VCD.. need to be on normal VCR tape.. any idea how i can transfer that? PLEASE HELP. Birthday is on 17th December.. and i am in trouble. By the way i do not have DVD player either.. just on computer.:scared:

[jggimi]

Hello, and welcome to Doom9's forum!

First and foremost: relax, calm yourself, you still have six weeks, and several relatively simple choices. None of them are overly complicated, some might even cost you little or nothing, depending on your charisma and interpersonal skills. This list of options, by the way, is by no means a complete list, just some suggestions of possible alternatives that come immediately to mind: Convert from DVD to VCR with a standalone DVD player, VCR, and appropriate analog cables. The MPEG DVD, since it is your content and not commercial, will not have Macrovision protection. To accomplish this you can purchase, rent, or borrow a standalone DVD player, perhaps a VCR if you don't have one, and the appropriate cables. Press Play on one device and Record on the other. If none of your friends will loan you a set-top DVD player for a few hours, then perhaps one of the relatives you sent the DVD to can do this task for you on your behalf?

You could take your DVD to a local video service company, and have them transfer it to tape for you for a fee.

To go from PC -> VCR requires a video card with something called "TV-Out." You can tell by looking at the video card connectors. If it doesn't have an analog video connector as well as the monitor connection, then you don't have TV-Out. If it has the connection, then the video card driver management software can turn it on for you. You would connect analog video and audio connections from the back of the PC to your VCR. You could, I suppose, buy or borrow a card with TV-Out and install it if necessary, but borrowing a DVD player is far simpler and easier.

If you have no friends with standalone DVD players, you could impose on a friend with a TV-Out connection, DVD-ROM drive, VCR, etc. or one with a a TV-Out connection,VCR, and a reasonably fast network connection to your PC, and sufficient networking knowledge to accomplish the file transfers over the network.Just as a note, the subject you've chosen for your first post is in violation of forum rule 9 (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm). You may want to review the rules, we're pretty firm about them.