bigal_scorpio
Active Member
Hi to all,
My son has an X-Box that has an optical output that is capable of surround sound 5.1 or 6.1, and a computer speaker system that has only one input which is 3 sets of stereo 3.5mm jacks. (its a creative labs one)
We were trying to connect the X-Box through the computer which has an Optical Input, but when we do the sound suffers about a seconds lag! I assume this is something to do with the PCs card processing method. We even bought another type of sound card and got the same result!
So I was wondering if anyone knows of a device we could buy or even construct that would convert the optical output from the X-Box to an input the speaker system could understand - that is a demuxed set of 1v peak to peak signals. 6 or 7 in all. Then I could simply build a switch box to change from PC input to X-Box input, that would be the easy bit!
Anyone with any ideas at all please feel free to suggest them no matter how complicated or expensive they are within reason anyway.
Thanks for looking.................Al
My son has an X-Box that has an optical output that is capable of surround sound 5.1 or 6.1, and a computer speaker system that has only one input which is 3 sets of stereo 3.5mm jacks. (its a creative labs one)
We were trying to connect the X-Box through the computer which has an Optical Input, but when we do the sound suffers about a seconds lag! I assume this is something to do with the PCs card processing method. We even bought another type of sound card and got the same result!
So I was wondering if anyone knows of a device we could buy or even construct that would convert the optical output from the X-Box to an input the speaker system could understand - that is a demuxed set of 1v peak to peak signals. 6 or 7 in all. Then I could simply build a switch box to change from PC input to X-Box input, that would be the easy bit!
Anyone with any ideas at all please feel free to suggest them no matter how complicated or expensive they are within reason anyway.
Thanks for looking.................Al