Xbox and PC linked to the same speakers and monitor... Possible?

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I currently have a system with the outputs of: DVI, HDMI, and VGA...

I was thinking of buying this monitor:

Asus VH222H 22" Widescreen True HD LCD Monitor

With: Analogue, HDMI, and DVI

My Xbox is obviously HDMI...

I have one pair of speakers... How can I make this all work correctly? What cables and things will I need? I want to be able to use my Xbox and PC on my same monitor and speakers so I don't have to keep unplugging things every time I want to play.

Can anyone help me get my head around this? :)
 
The video leads are obvious, HDMI for the 360 and DVI for the PC. But the audio, I'm not sure about sorry. :( I guess you could use the normal RCA cables to the 360 and then plug the white and red wires into your speakers, that's your 360 audio and video sorted and the PC's video sorted too. Not sure about PC sound though. Maybe there's some kind of splitter you can use to connect more than one device to the speakers. Sorry I can't be of more usefulness. :( Oh and by the way, you can get a decoder to split the sound between the X Box and the PC, but I'm not sure on the pricing of those. I'll have a look and then edit my post later on :) Unless someone beats me to it. :p
 
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I have that monitor, for the money it's a bargain.

it has AUDIO OUT over 3.5mm so the worst you will have add, if you really want to have no unplugging, is a 3.5mm audio splitter type gadget, which I'm sure must be available, possibly on auction sites, although I'd give yuor nearest componenent electrical or decent audio shop a ding too if yuo have trouble finding something like that.

My plan, as I'm too lazy to fix anythign fancy up, is to just get some 3.5mm extension leads, and run one long one from the back of the PC up to me, one long one from the monitors audio out to near me, and stick one on the end of the speaker 3.5mm connection. I might label them for when I;m drunk.

Then, if I am on the PC, I just plug the PCs extension in to the extended speaker input, and if I want to use the XBox, I press the input button on the monitor, plug in the extended audio out from the moniter to the extended speaker 3.5mm cable, and bang, audio out from XBox.

My XBox hasn't arrived yet so I can't confirm that will work, but I should be able to say for sure, hopefully tomorrow.

Thread bookmarked. :)
 
I run my Xbox into my monitor with a KVM which only has a single VGA and then swap the audio over as necessary, its not the ideal solution but it works fine for me until I upgrade my monitor. You have enough ports to not need a KVM but audio wise I can't suggest anything others haven't already.
 
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You can buy a monitor with speaker outputs, and dvi and hdmi inputs... I suppose that could work? - It is quite complicated and awkward how it all works at the moment.
 
I'd buy hardware to match in the first place, but a good solution would be an AV switcher. I can't really post a link, but a little Google search will get you loads of hits.

You plug both of your audio sources into it, each one on a separate channel, and then run the main output into your speakers. Then, when you want to use the other audio source, just flick the switch to the corresponding channel.

Chris.
 
5UB said:
You can buy a monitor with speaker outputs, and dvi and hdmi inputs... I suppose that could work? - It is quite complicated and awkward how it all works at the moment.
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The Asus monitor linked to does this. I have one. I have the manual. I'm defintely right. Unless I'm wrong. Which isn't impossible, but it's pretty unlikely. ;)
Minimoke - ballpark price for an audio switcher? Takeaway pizza priced [IE under £20]?
 
AV switchbox seems the obvious choice. I've got one here that takes 3 sets of red/white/yellow inputs, switchable, and outputs two parallel sets of red/white/yellow rca. So you pick number 1, 2 or 3 and it passes the signal out of both sets of outputs.
I have nintendo 64 and pc attached at the moment, both connected to a tv and some speakers. I daresay I could do more cunning things with it. I took it apart a while ago, internal cables exactly where you might expect.

Cost me £12 special order years ago. I ran two stereos off the same audio source with it. There's a fair few of them on the market.

KVM switches may also be what you're after, some of them do audio.
 
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AV switchbox seems the obvious choice. I've got one here that takes 3 sets of red/white/yellow inputs, switchable, and outputs two parallel sets of red/white/yellow rca. So you pick number 1, 2 or 3 and it passes the signal out of both sets of outputs.
I have nintendo 64 and pc attached at the moment, both connected to a tv and some speakers. I daresay I could do more cunning things with it. I took it apart a while ago, internal cables exactly where you might expect.

Cost me £12 special order years ago. I ran two stereos off the same audio source with it. There's a fair few of them on the market.

KVM switches may also be what you're after, some of them do audio.
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That would require a moniter with RCA/composite inputs - no such luck. Would also require a VGA adapter for the Xbox.

My one has arrived, off to get an HDMI cable, updates soon :cool:
 
I fear you misunderstood me. As the monitor has dvi and hdmi inputs, that neatly takes care of the video switching. The switch box suggested in my post is to take care of the audio, not the video.

That my particular one features a yellow phono contact as well doesn't mean I was suggesting using this to output to the monitor. Doing so would cripple the image quality. It just so happens that sending a N64 through phono doesn't matter too much, and pc to sd tv through phono doesn't matter much either. Hence I'm switching video with the same box.
 
i have pretty much what ur after except i have a dvd player/home theatre system for my speakers. i have pc linked up to my Viewsonic hd monitor via dvi, i have my xbox plugged in via hdmi, and my sound for my xbox going though optical to my system, and also my pc on another optical output, then i just switch between the outputs on my system between pc and xbox.

and i set the sound on the monitor to 0.
 
Bump, works fine. Moniter speakers aren't acually that bad - I didn't feel the need to hook up the sub etc. Does the job.

Not helped by the fact that the seller of the XBox seemed to have mangled the HDMI port, but I think I have fixed that with careful applicatoin of a paper clip :)

JonJ -aye, misunderstood, see where you are coming from now :)
 
About that, yes.

[QUOTEMinimoke - ballpark price for an audio switcher? Takeaway pizza priced [IE under £20]?[/QUOTE]


Yeah they're cheap as chips. Very simple devices, and the average price reflects that.

Chris.
 
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