Connecting MP3 Players to playable devices

[ElBoricua433]

Hi How do you connect an Ipod and a Zune to a DVD Player to hear music from the TV?

[guns1inger]

You don't. Unless the DVD player has either an iPod socket or audio and video inputs, you cannot connect external devices to it and have the audio or video come through your TV.

If it is a home theatre type player (built-in amplifier etc) or a dedicated AV amplifier them you need the correct cables to connect to the device at one end, and the amplifier at the other.

[ElBoricua433]

well I got an Ipod Dock with the Audio and Video Inputs

[guns1inger]

And ?

[ElBoricua433]

that doesn't work either

[guns1inger]

I don't understand what you are trying to do. A DVD player (as opposed to a home theatre all-in-one type device or a DVD/VHS combo unit) has no inputs. It only plays. You cannot connect anything to it.

before anyone can really help you, how about you stop answering in vague one-liners, and give us some details.

What are you trying to connect to ? DVD Player is not an answer - model and make is an answer

How are you connecting it up ? What connectors ? from what to what ?

[ElBoricua433]

well my DVD Player is a Oppo 970-HD, I used the Ipod Dock and the connectors, which is red, yellow, and white to see if that will work, unfortunetaly it didn't

[guns1inger]

And you are probably lucky you didn't blow one or the other up. You are plugging the outputs from one into the outputs of the other. The fact that they are labeled outputs should have been a bit of a giveaway.

[ElBoricua433]

Now I gotta another question, how come all of the sudden the battery is like dying to quick like the green color goes out like more quicker than it should, am I overcharging the battery too much?

[Cornucopia]

Either yes, or no.

[ElBoricua433]

cause when it is finished charging, like a couple of minutes go by and it starts dying down

[guns1inger]

iPods are known for a large number of battery and screen problems. They were voted as one of Australian Choice magazine's lemon of the year products for 2006 because of the stupidly high number of problems with screens, batteries and general audio issues, and because of Apple's very poor warranty policy, which actually contravenes Australian consumer law. Personally, I would not buy an iPod because they are simply not quality items. (Cue all the iPod and Apple fanboys telling me how they have had the same battery for 25 years and it has never run flat etc.)