Going from a Media Center PC to a TV in another room

[mattman59]

I plan on running a yellow RCA cable from my PC in my office to watch AVI files but I have no idea how to import the audio. My PC does not have white and red RCA jacks for audio. Any ideas?

[edDV]

There should be an audio line out from your sound card. Composite video will be OK out to about 150ft assuming good coax, but high impedance audio won't go far without serious noise.

Easiest solution might be wireless. Something like this but cheaper. Consult Radio Shack.
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=335791

[mattman59]

Well I was trying to do it on the cheap, I actually bought a wireless solution for the video and audio. The video looked great, the audio was really soft and I had to turn the TV all the way up.

The really bad thing was that it ran at 2.4 GHz, my wifi and cordless phone also run at 2.4 GHz. I called the company and they said turn the wifi off and get a new phone. I said F u and am going to return it to Tiger Direct.

[bigbyte]

I use Microlink dLan plugs for the LAN have GB-PVR on XP/PC and connect to the LAN by ethernet cable to Hauppage Media-MVP and then S-video cable to the TV to access and play Video files off the PC. video and audio is good.

[jagabo]

Use this to convert your sound card's mini pinplug to stereo RCA:

http://www.audiogear.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?key=Adpt2Rf-Mnsp&preadd=action

[kicko]

you can use one of these if your laptop has s-video http://www.svideo.com/prosvideo6.html

then the trick is the wireless part which results will vary on product but try this one its cheap enough to try it out http://sewelldirect.com/Wireless-Audio-Video-Extender.asp

and if you dont have an s-video output http://sewelldirect.com/wireless-pc-to-tv.asp?&

all seem to run on 2.4 Ghz but here's a wired option tooo http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp

the soft audio might have been a low set slider in the soundcard mixer panel

[jagabo]

Or A/V over CAT5:

http://shop.vetcosurplus.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6988

http://www.tselectronic.com/unicom/svau501va.html

[edDV]

A quality option is S/PDIF which can go 6m or more with either coax or optical but quality cables must be used. Coax has potential for for creating gound loops (ac hum) due to mismatched gounds. Optical cables can solve that for audio but the video coax might still create poblems over long lengths.

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/digital-audio_cables.html