Recording Internet Video from Mac to VCR

Here's what I want to do ---
There is some streaming video that I wish to be able to show to a class. I cannot download it and burn it to a DVD, so I was hoping to hook up my computer to my TV, play the video and record it to a VHS cassette.
I have succeeded in using the TV as a monitor, with both video and sound, and I played the streaming video and hit the record button on the VCR.
However, when I tried to play it back, I just got several minutes of a screen that was blank except for the words "Unusable Signal." Obviously it had not recorded the video.
Does anyone know whether/how I can do what I am attempting?
Or is there a way to connect the computer directly to the VCR and record that way?
I realize this a backward process compared to what most people try to do with a Mac and a VCR. Please help!
(FYI, I am using a G$ PowerBook, running OSX 10.3.9, and Samsung VCR.)
Thanks.

Yes, you need to hook up the Mac to the VCR directly, as if it were the TV. If you then connect the VCR output to the TV you'll be able to see what you're receiving on the VCR.
Many VCRs have composite video connectors or S-Video connectors, to take video from handycams and the like so you should be able to do it without difficulty.

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