Recording "On the Fly"

Does anyone know the best way to record a computer's screen & audio
while it is displaying? I know there's a couple of screen-recording
programs but I'm looking for something a little easier to use. I'd
just like to pipe everything that is showing on my monitor out to a
dvd or cdr. I have a monitor with audio and video output jacks as
well as a video capture card with output jacks for audio and video.

I'd prefer to use an external recorder with the computer in a manner
similar to using a vcr with a tv - just watching tv and pressing
"record" to record what is showing at the time.

Thanks in advance for any info!!

lynn

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Does anyone know the best way to record a computer's screen & audio
while it is displaying? I know there's a couple of screen-recording
programs but I'm looking for something a little easier to use. I'd
just like to pipe everything that is showing on my monitor out to a
dvd or cdr. I have a monitor with audio and video output jacks as
well as a video capture card with output jacks for audio and video.

I'd prefer to use an external recorder with the computer in a manner
similar to using a vcr with a tv - just watching tv and pressing
"record" to record what is showing at the time.

If your video card has a S-Video out port, you can
connect that to a S-Video in on a DVD recorder or S-VHS
VCR. Or you can pipe the output to a 2nd PC with a
capture card.

Works well if your ultimate output is going to be a
tutorial DVD, although you won't be able to read finer
things on the screen like icon names. (The effective
resolution of DVD is around 640x480, but VHS/S-VHS is a
bit lower then that.)