Laptop to Tv question

[camakazee]

I recently purchased a VGA hook-up, along with a 1/8" headphone to tv jack (the thing that goes in your computer and hooks up with the big white L and red R plugs into your tv). I did this so I could hook up my laptop to my tv, so it acted as a bigger monitor for when I have to watch Cavs games online. Well, I hooked it up and changed my graphics options, output to monitor and it worked perfectly. However, as soon as I played some video I noticed that there was no sound. I can unplug the converter from my headphone jack and play sound on my laptop while it shows video on my tv, but I really wanted to have the audio on the television as well. Also, I tested the headphone jack with regular headphones and it works just fine. I skimmed countless google searches for the same problem and all I can get is "did you plug it into the tv? Whoops! Nope, thanks a lot!" type resolutions. So in my fit of rage, I came over to RCF so that hopefully I can get some help

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop and Niko tv if that's of any help. Thanks in advance!

 

[The Voice]

Do you have surround sound or are you just trying to play it out your tv?

 

[camakazee]

Do you have surround sound or are you just trying to play it out your tv?

No surround sound, just trying to get it to play out of the tv. To be honest, the tv isn't even that much bigger than the laptop, but it sure beats watching the game on that screen :chuckles:

 

[305MiamiHeat]

I recently purchased a VGA hook-up, along with a 1/8" headphone to tv jack (the thing that goes in your computer and hooks up with the big white L and red R plugs into your tv). I did this so I could hook up my laptop to my tv, so it acted as a bigger monitor for when I have to watch Cavs games online. Well, I hooked it up and changed my graphics options, output to monitor and it worked perfectly. However, as soon as I played some video I noticed that there was no sound. I can unplug the converter from my headphone jack and play sound on my laptop while it shows video on my tv, but I really wanted to have the audio on the television as well. Also, I tested the headphone jack with regular headphones and it works just fine. I skimmed countless google searches for the same problem and all I can get is "did you plug it into the tv? Whoops! Nope, thanks a lot!" type resolutions. So in my fit of rage, I came over to RCF so that hopefully I can get some help

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop and Niko tv if that's of any help. Thanks in advance!

I had the same problem on mine but what I did is I connected the headphone jack from my laptop to my surround sound system which is great, cause all the movies I download I can watch HD and surround sound. The problems seems to be that when the tv is on PC mode the sound jack isnt split to one of the Audio imputs, I guess they werent designed that way. To test that theory you can put your tv on AV1 or AV2 or AV3 mode and see that the sound works because the device is open, but once you switch to PC mode the tv splits the signal imiedately from the audio because it runs to a seperate pipeline on the controller board.

 

[TAS]

I recently purchased a VGA hook-up, along with a 1/8" headphone to tv jack (the thing that goes in your computer and hooks up with the big white L and red R plugs into your tv). I did this so I could hook up my laptop to my tv, so it acted as a bigger monitor for when I have to watch Cavs games online. Well, I hooked it up and changed my graphics options, output to monitor and it worked perfectly. However, as soon as I played some video I noticed that there was no sound. I can unplug the converter from my headphone jack and play sound on my laptop while it shows video on my tv, but I really wanted to have the audio on the television as well. Also, I tested the headphone jack with regular headphones and it works just fine. I skimmed countless google searches for the same problem and all I can get is "did you plug it into the tv? Whoops! Nope, thanks a lot!" type resolutions. So in my fit of rage, I came over to RCF so that hopefully I can get some help

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop and Niko tv if that's of any help. Thanks in advance!

VGA doesn't carry audio.

 

[camakazee]

VGA doesn't carry audio.

Yeah, I'm not using the VGA to carry the audio. I'm using a 1/8" audio to RCA converter.

 

[Cavatt]

Be careful you aren't putting the red and white RCA plugs into output jacks. It is probably something really simple like that.

When you watch DVD's do you plug the rca cables from your DVD player into the same inputs on the tv? Wherever you plug the red and white from your dvd or vcr into your tv, use those inputs.

 

[TAS]

Like Mr.305 said, PC Mode doesn't have audio inputs. When i connect my PC-TV i connect the audio cables to my receiver.

I got a question though. How is the picture quality? I can't watch online videos on my TV. Quality blows.

 

[camakazee]

Like Mr.305 said, PC Mode doesn't have audio inputs. When i connect my PC-TV i connect the audio cables to my receiver.

I got a question though. How is the picture quality? I can't watch online videos on my TV. Quality blows.

The quality is pretty good. Actually better than when I'm watching it on my laptop. They said VGA is good for transferring video quality, and so far everything is good.