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Audio problem help please

  • 22-10-2009 5:44pm
    #1
    Bobby speed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi, can anyone help me :(, i have hooked my ps3 to my hd ready tv via aHDMI cable, there is no port/slot for a HDMI link (there is a DVI link)on my tv so i used an adapter. This works fine but i have no audio but its picture perfect. need help or suggestions. i know this topic has been disscussed before sorry


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  • #2
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,734 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    DVI cables only carry picture not sound.
    You'll have to use something else for the sound.

    You could use the simple AV cable that comes with the ps3 I imagine, just plug in the red and white parts into the tv and tell the PS3 to output audio via A/V cable.

    All assuming your monitor has a scart or composite sockets.


  • #3
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    noodler wrote: »
    DVI cables only carry picture not sound.
    You'll have to use something else for the sound.

    You could use the simple AV cable that comes with the ps3 I imagine, just plug in the red and white parts into the tv and tell the PS3 to output audio via A/V cable.

    All assuming your monitor has a scart or composite sockets.


    Yeah that's what I've done.

    Use the HDMI->DVI for the picture

    And then use the multi-out cable that comes with the PS3 that has the yellow, red and white cables.

    The yellow one is for video, so you don't need that but the red and white ones are for sound, so if your TV has scart or composite they should go in there.

    Alternatively there are various adapters you can get to make them fit into other things. I've connected mine to two speakers for instance.

    You just need to go to Audio/Sound settings and change the audio output to scart or something similar.


  • #4
    Bobby speed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Bobby speed


    Thanks guys:),
    i tried this but it did not work will i need to reset the ps3 first :confused: any other ideas


  • #5
    DemoniK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭DemoniK


    If your TV has a DVI port - it probably has close to it a 3.5mm plug for audio in..
    You need to get a "Phono-to-3.5 Jack" Y cable which will plug into the red and white RCA plugs from the multi-out connector on the PS3 and then allow you to hook into the 3.5mm jack TV.
    Any electronic store should carry it..

    Once you have the cable, you modify the A/V settings on the PS3 to output sound over the the multi-out.

    EDIT - meant to add... For most TVs you can't just hook up the audio to one AV connection, and the video to another and expect to Mix them... Most TVs with PC support will have a video and seperate audio connector. You will have to use these.


  • #6
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    RikD wrote: »

    EDIT - meant to add... For most TVs you can't just hook up the audio to one AV connection, and the video to another and expect to Mix them... Most TVs with PC support will have a video and seperate audio connector. You will have to use these.

    Yeah actually didn't think of that, it would have to be one or the other on a tv channel, HDMI or scart.

    If your TV doesn't have a line in then you'll just have to hook the sound up to some other audio device like.


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  • #7
    Bobby speed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Bobby speed


    RikD wrote: »
    If your TV has a DVI port - it probably has close to it a 3.5mm plug for audio in..
    You need to get a "Phono-to-3.5 Jack" Y cable which will plug into the red and white RCA plugs from the multi-out connector on the PS3 and then allow you to hook into the 3.5mm jack TV.
    Any electronic store should carry it..

    Once you have the cable, you modify the A/V settings on the PS3 to output sound over the the multi-out.

    Is the phono to 3.5 jack an adapter that plugs into the DVI audio port to which you can attach the red and white adio leads from the PS3, i am not as technical as most people :o unfortunatley.

    Such as the item here ?
    http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/AD012.html?id=oAoQg6cp


  • #8
    DemoniK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭DemoniK


    Not sure what you mean by DVI audio port - but am guessing it's a 3.5mm socket on the back of the TV..
    If so then that item would do the trick :)


  • #9
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Leave your hdmi plugged into the dvi port as you have already done.

    Now plug in the normal cable that came with the ps3 into the red and white ports on the tv , leave the yellow plug you dont need it.

    On thew ps3 go into settings and audio settings and send theaudio to the av or component cable.


  • #10
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Leave your hdmi plugged into the dvi port as you have already done.

    Now plug in the normal cable that came with the ps3 into the red and white ports on the tv , leave the yellow plug you dont need it.

    That probably wouldn't work as RikD pointed out. While on the HDMI channel the TV will probably expect the sound from HDMI, or if it's on the the AV composite channel it'll expect the video from that one, not the HDMI.


  • #11
    bucks73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    If the TV has component in you could buy a PS3 component cable. Red, green and blue connections transfer the picture while red and white audio plugs transfer the sound.


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  • #12
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    bucks73 wrote: »
    If the TV has component in you could buy a PS3 component cable. Red, green and blue connections transfer the picture while red and white audio plugs transfer the sound.


    But then he won't get digital video, and he could just use the yellow for video.


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