When connecting surround sound components together which connections do you use?

Question about connecting my TV, computer, and PS2 to surround sound receiver?

• OK, here's the deal. I have my sony 5.1 surround sound system, I will soon have a JVC receiver to hook all that up to, but I want to double check about a few things. First of all, I have a symphonic TV that has an earphone output and a video audio input. I have tried putting the RCA plugs in the TV for sound, but that doesn't work, so my PS2 is hooked up to the TV using an RFU adapter. My question is how can I get sound from my TV to the surround sound receiver? Could I use some kind of cable with the earphone output and run my TV's sound into my computer and then go from the computers output into the receiver? I'll be using this specific TV for gaming and DVD's. Any help is appreciated.

• Answer:

  If your TV doesn't feature an RCA Line level output, which I doubt a cheesy brand like Symphonic would, You could take the Headphone out which should be a 1/8" stereo mini jack and get a 1/8" stereo male-male cable and go to the line input on your PC. Then use an 1/8" stereo to Stereo RCA Males to connect your sound card's output to your receiver's TAPE or CD Input. You may have to unmute the line input on you PC's mixer to "loop" the input to the output.