Route Xbox 360 Audio through Computer and Out Desktop Speakers
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EDIT: Most of my questions are answered, but I have a weird sound card problem (down a few posts).
I want to hook up my 360 to my monitor and use these cables. ([URL="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/"]Link[/URL]) The problem is that my monitor doesn't have built in speakers. I think I could get around this by routing the red/white audio cables from the xbox into my computer and back out to my desktop speakers. I'm assuming I need some kind of jack to convert the red/white into some kind of cable that can feed into my computer, but I'm not sure what. Any ideas?
Is routing the audio through the computer possible? With my set up, I have 2 speakers that attach to the subwoofer, then then subwoofer has a pink and a green wire that connect to my computer. Where would I connect the audio in to the computer to re-route? If there is a way, can I control which source I want my speakers to output from (xbox or computer) without crawling behind my desk and manually disconnecting and reconnecting wires?
If something doesn't make sense, please post and I'll explain further. Thanks a lot. I can post more hardware specs about what ports I have on the back of my computer if they are needed.
(Oh and yes, I know for this to work I'd have to have my computer on while I played my xbox.)
The VGA cable comes with a white and red RCA to headphone jack adapter.
But just run it into your soundcard's line in jack, and then tell Windows to forward the sound to your speakers. In XP all you do is unmute Line In in the Volume control panel. I'm not sure on how to do it in Vista and 7, but it might be similar.
[QUOTE=Demache;20368371]The VGA cable comes with a white and red RCA to headphone jack adapter.
But just run it into your soundcard's line in jack, and then tell Windows to forward the sound to your speakers. In XP all you do is unmute Line In in the Volume control panel. I'm not sure on how to do it in Vista and 7, but it might be similar.[/QUOTE]
Oh, that's good =p. Do you know how long the part of the cable that has the red/white audio is? I'm not sure if I'll need an extension to get them to my computer.
Now my problem is I don't know if I have a line-in port on my soundcard. I've looked on the internet and the standard color for the line in port is light blue. On the back of my card, I have the green and pink which the speakers are plugged into, a grey, an orange, and a black. All of those ports have the "audio out" logo (The sound waves with an arrow pointing upwards) except the microphone jack which has that logo with an arrow pointing down. It does have an optical in port though, sort of looks like an ethernet port.
Why wouldn't my card have a line in? My card is a "Creative SB X-FI". Not sure if it is part of a series and have a longer name...
Any suggestions?
Then I don't know. But what kind of sound card doesn't have Line In? Every computer I've seen except for laptops have some sort of Line In. Even my ancient PII system. That's a bit odd.
As for your first question, its pretty short, so you most likely will need to get an extension cable.
[QUOTE=Demache;20369765]Then I don't know. But what kind of sound card doesn't have Line In? Every computer I've seen except for laptops have some sort of Line In. Even my ancient PII system. That's a bit odd.
As for your first question, its pretty short, so you most likely will need to get an extension cable.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it seems strange, the only line in I think is the microphone line-in. It's a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer sound card. I bought it a few years ago and it wasn't a cheap card. Besides the colors I mentioned and the optical in/out port on the sound card, there is a port that says "coaxial audio" up higher on the tower (not near the soundcard) but it looks like a slightly different size. I suppose I could use the microphone in port, but isn't the sound delayed through that and wouldn't it be sending too mcuh power through because if there was a mic there it would provide power for the mic?
When I look up the specs of my card it says there is a line-in and a microphone-in but maybe that is an updated model. I'm not sure, doesn't make sense there isn't a line-in. I've looked through pictures of all the sound blaster cards and none of them seem like mine. What the hell?
EDIT: I looked up the model number on my card and I found it. It's some weird OEM version. Here is a pic.[IMG]http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27295&stc=1&d=1248239758[/IMG]
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