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audio solution needed

Dorkenstein

Dorkenstein

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I would like to have my xbox 360 and pc running on my pc speakers. With the 360 I have the VGA cable and adapter. Is there an external sound card that can do this for me? Thanks.
 
I guess all connections are analog, right?

You do not need and external sound card. I am not familiar with the 360, but I guess you can get an analog sound output from it in some way. You can get a small switch box at any radio or electronics store. Just hook up the 360, the PC and the speakers to the box, and your are good to go.
 
Well the external sound card was to kill 2 birds with one stone. I have a really bad usb-key sized sound card right now because there is no room for a pci sound card in my case. Thanks for the recommendation though.
 
Yeah, in theory you can run the 360's audio output to the line-in of a sound card and then 'listen' to the line-in feed, which will play that audio over the same speakers the PC is plugged into. However, this requires you to have the PC on, and most sound cards only have stereo audio input (so no 5.1).

I'd get a switch or passive splitters at an electronics store (splitters will work fine as long as only one device is on at a time).
 
You have the output of your PC's soundcard going to the speakers, this would be the line-out. Then there is a line-in connection to the PC's soundcard which you plug the 360's audio cables into using an adapter. This adapter, easy to find at Radioshack or wherever, will take the 2 RED and WHITE RCA cables from the 360 and put them into a miniplug that you could connect to the soundcard's line-in. Then. using some sort of software on your PC (not sure bout this part), you will pass the audio from the line-in to the line-out which goes to your speakers. This requires the speakers to be on and I'm not sure since I've never tried it, it MIGHT be slightly delayed from the image you are seeing on the screen. This is like connecting the 360 as a microphone and listening in.

An alternative as suggested, is to get another sort of device/adapter that will let you directly plug the 2 RCA cables from the 360 directly into the speakers. This would be the ideal solution.
 
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