Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

[King Sleepless]

Do you have some random technical issues? I'll try to help. I'm on a train right now and am pretty bored.

No, I'm not going to entertain stupid questions where you ask me some absurd problem that is completely out of context that requires an extensive amount of math for me to figure out for you. Unless I can bill you for it. Anything that requires me to cite a law or something, is not you being clever. You're trying to waggle your cock around and it's embarrassing for you.

Anyway, have at it. I'll pick questions to answer and help you out.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

Perfect timing.

Do you know of an audio cord for a PC that has three male ends, one at the PC end and two on the other? To be clear, I'm asking if this even exists.

[King Sleepless]

Perfect timing.

Do you know of an audio cord for a PC that has three male ends, one at the PC end and two on the other? To be clear, I'm asking if this even exists.

Are you trying to split the audio or are you trying to convert the signal?

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

I'm guessing split. My PC is hooked up to my tv, but it's old enough where the video and sound run from separate ports so I get video just no audio. I'm thinking a need a cable like I described to hook in the audio jacks in the back of the tv. Even though my PC is hooked up to an HDMI input, I can hear the audio of anything hooked up to the "Video" input while on that particular HDMI input.

[King Sleepless]

I'm guessing split. My PC is hooked up to my tv, but it's old enough where the video and sound run from separate ports so I get video just no audio. I'm thinking a need a cable like I described to hook in the audio jacks in the back of the tv. Even though my PC is hooked up to an HDMI input, I can hear the audio of anything hooked up to the "Video" input while on that particular HDMI input.

OK.

So it sounds like you need a 8mm audio that converts to RCA. I think you're having an issue with your TV being old, correct? Go to radioshack and ask them for a 8mm (or auxiliary cable) that converts to RCA. They should have one. Some older TV's don't convert the digital signal from HDMI into sound, just the visual.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

I'm not sure how long this particular model tv has been around, but I just bought it a few weeks ago.

When I was talking about the ports (not sure if that's the technical term) I was talking about the ones on the back of the PC. I'll take some pics real quick since I don't think I'm explaining my problem very well.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

Video port:


Sound port:


Hdmi cable running from pc:


A/v jacks my ps1 is hooked to but I can hear on pc input:

[King Sleepless]

OK. I get you.

First, why do you have another VGA coming out of your machine? What's that about? Secondly, it looks like either the TV isn't decoding the audio from the HDMI properly or your PC is not coding the audio properly. Either way, it's not working. You need to connect your computer's digital audio out to the TV's digital audio in. If your TV doesn't have one, you might need to either get a sound card for your PC that can handle the distribution of your audio stuff or get a receiver that can handle all of your sound needs.

[goodlun]

If it comes down to having to get a new sound card you could just opt to go with a set of PC speakers instead. Its a little ghetto but it may be cheaper (I have not priced sound cards or speakers in a long time). You will get sound and video that way though.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

Unless you're seeing something I'm not there are not two video outputs on my PC, I just took a picture of both ends in case it helped you to see what I was saying.

I was told that the video output on my PC does not process sound because of its type (which I can't remember the name of), not because of any other reason. The PC is what is old. Does that sound wrong to you and I should just go with what you said earlier?

[goodlun]

Wait are you going VGA to HDMI?

[King Sleepless]

Well it looks like on the video card there's a black VGA cable coming out from it. VGA is Video Graphics Array. HDMI is High Definition Multimedia Interface. VGA is that serial cable coming out of your video card. The HDMI is the one that is plugged into your TV. Where does the VGA go to? And where is the HDMI coming from?

Newegg sells videocards for like $40. If that's the case, you could just upgrade the card if you're not trying to play games or anything and just trying to use it as a media device.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

Wait are you going VGA to HDMI?

I believe so.

Well it looks like on the video card there's a black VGA cable coming out from it. VGA is Video Graphics Array. HDMI is High Definition Multimedia Interface. VGA is that serial cable coming out of your video card. The HDMI is the one that is plugged into your TV. Where does the VGA go to? And where is the HDMI coming from?

It is the same cable. It converts the VGA to HDMI.

Newegg sells videocards for like $40. If that's the case, you could just upgrade the card if you're not trying to play games or anything and just trying to use it as a media device.

I may have to, I just figured if an audio cable like the one I describe exists that it would be a cheaper fix.

[goodlun]

I may have to, I just figured if an audio cable like the one I describe exists that it would be a cheaper fix.

You can get an all male Y cable or use a female to male converter but it won't solve your problem most likely as the TV is looking for audio over the HDMI input. If you can specify the audio input separate from the video input on the tv for the HDMI channel than you could use the cable.
You can use external speakers cause the PC is still pumping audio out of those ports or you can get a video card that supports HDMI.

[itwasntme]

Re: Do you have technical issues? Let me try to help you.

I discovered the other day that I could hear my FF9 music while I had a walkthrough pulled up on my PC. All I would have to do is unhook the audio cables from the PS1 and replace them with a set from the PC when I wanted to watch 100% legal movies or listen to 100% legal music.

Only problem I can foresee is only having one male end to hook up from the PC which would only provide audio from side of the tv speakers.

If said audio cable does not exist, it would seem more worthwhile to just invest the video card so long as it wouldn't make my movies look like someone went to the theater and recorded the movie on their cell phone.