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    just wondering if anyone knows how i could do this:

    i have a home surround system with a dvd player and its all hooked up to my tv.. what i want to do is hook my computer up to this so all the sounds are played through my surround sound system instead of having computer speakers?
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  2. I would think you could take the line out of your sound card use a mini-din to RCA adapter and run it into one of the inputs of your stero. Just don't use the speaker out or else you could blow the input to your stereo.

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    yeah i should try something out!
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    Originally Posted by smarkgraf
    I would think you could take the line out of your sound card use a mini-din to RCA adapter and run it into one of the inputs of your stero. Just don't use the speaker out or else you could blow the input to your stereo.

    Steve
    Why would the speaker out blow the input on his stereo? Isn't the line level the same as that of say a standard CD player. There is no amplification of any type in the sound card to make the signal any stronger than others. Besides, my sound card doesn't even have a line out (just a speaker out, which is a line out). Most sound cards I've seen (aside from those with advanced capabilities) have a line in, a microphone in, a line out (speaker out), and a digital out. Some earlier multi channel sound cards (sound blaster live!) had all of these (minus the digital out) plus an additional speaker output (line out) for the addition of rear amplified speakers.

    Simply run a 1/8 stereo to stereo RCA (phono) from your pc to an open input on your stereo receiver.
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  5. Some sound cards DO have an amplified speaker out, that is different from the non-amplified line out, or aux out.
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