Thank you to Peter Hogan and Mark Rode for the information. I will try
connecting a TV to the output and see what comes out. If the Gainward card
is sending the same info out the RCA jack that it sends to the screen, I
could indeed have a problem since my screen is 1600x1200.

What I was wondering, however, is whether the video card could send specific
information to the RCA video output that is different from the monitor
display. The Media Player or other player such as my editing software by
Ulead or RealPlayer for example will display the video in their own window,
not the full screen. Could that window information be sent to the video
output rather than the full screen display that is shown on the monitor? Am
I wrong in expecting a video card to do this? It seems like that would be a
common thing that would be desirable in video editing.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
> Peter Hogan Wrote:
>  You may need to set the computer monitor to 640x480 or 800x600 at a 60Hz
refresh rate
> for the TV out jack to work. Different video card handle this differently,
and if you use
> a TV (at least at first), you can see immediately if the TV out jack is
working 
> (outputting video). Once you have the jack outputting what you want to see
(on the TV),
> swap the video cable from the TV to the VCR, and record your edited video.
>
> Mark Rode wrote:
> Yes, this is what I understood you as trying to do. TV OUT 
> has to be enabled on your video card, either automatically or 
> manually, then you have to output the video, and  any audio 
> signal into the VCR.

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