krazykoncepts

i was wondering how to hook up the portble dvd players to you car speakers.....im taking about the dvd player that are like laptop with a screen and player in one....i also want to run a deck of the speakers

asuka42227

easiest way is to get a cassette adaptor. Oh wait, no one has cassettes anymore. You could go Radio Shack and pick up an input jack that you could splice into your speaker wires and then a patch cable to run from the headphone jack on the dvd to your new jack.

krazykoncepts

but i cant get sorround sound...by splicing the wires can i?
and the fact that sometime the deck will be playing...when the dvd player is off wont mees things up?

InsaneGideon

Whoa! Don't just start splicing wires!

First let us know what kind of stereo you have.

krazykoncepts

ok heres the WHOLE plan.....i want to take the portable dvd player and install it in the car.....also play my cd, mp3s off of it...then get a deck primarily for radio....maybe a cd deck though....i want to then wire both up to the car speakers. I have 2 door speakers and 2 rear hatch speakers....nothing fancy.....the current deck i have is clarion DB336MP...its a radio, cd, mp3 deck.......2 channel rca line level output.if that helps

asuka42227

scrap the plan. those 200 dollar portable dvd's are pretty useless. You have to be able to power and charge the thing first off. Best way to do that is with a power inverter hidden somewhere in the car. Weight and space. You've got a 90 GXL. The place where the factory stereo used to go is frickin huge. You can pick up a Receiver/LCD that's a single DIN.

http://www.cardiscountstereos.com/Ca...uct+%23=PLTV5R

Then in the extra space you can mount.

http://www.cardiscountstereos.com/Ca...t+%23=PLDVD130

Holy batshit ratman. A complete mobile theater for only about 350 USD. I didn't realize I could do it that cheap. I know what I'm getting myself for St Patricks Day.

InsaneGideon

The portable DVD player should have at least an analog stereo pair output that you can connect with RCA's. You'll need something with an analog *input*. As far as I can tell, the DB336MP does not have an analog input (only an output).

You can either get a different deck with an analog input, or get an external amp and switch between the Clarion & the DVD.

That's if you want stereo. If you want 4+ channel surround sound, you'll need a deck (or amp) with a 4 channel analog input (I don't know of one that exists), and a DVD player with a multichannel decoder analog out. I believe Clarion makes a deck with Dolby II decoding, so you could feed it a stereo pair from the DVD and get an analog surround sound... or if one exists, you could use a stand-alone decoder and an external amp.

Or (yes there's more), if you want to make use of a DVD player with a digital out, you'll have to use a deck or outboard DSP with a digital in that can decode to a multichannel analog amp.

Phew

krazykoncepts

ummm ya....lol
gonna print that out and head to my local audio store and get some price quotes this week

rynberg

InsaneGideon is exactly right. Just go buy a frigging DVD capable head unit.

krazykoncepts

thanks for the help guys...

Zer0 Cylinder

splicing wires has nothing to do with surround sound, yuo have a white and a red output jack....left and right audio.....which is stereo, not a 5.1/6.1 true "surround sound'.....you will only have two channels, which will sound good.

Zer0 Cylinder

there are two ways to do it:

1: get a reciever unit with an "AUX" input.
2: get a modulator that will broadcast the dvd audio onto an FM station (just like wireless cd changers).

splicing wires on this will not help. if you splice right into the speaker wire, you will mess the impedance up and the volume of the dvd player will be EXTREMELY low, i doubt oyu'll be able to hear it. why? the dvd player has no pre-amp, the indash reciever will amplify, and send it to the speakers, if you go to cutting wires, you're gonna kick yourself in the ***.

Zer0 Cylinder

a digital sound processor wouldnt have a digital input. thats the exact opposite of what a DSP is, a DSP will take an analog 2-channel (in most cases) source and process it into a fake surround sound...but who can tell the difference?

rynberg

Try again. A DSP just does the processing in the digital domain, the type of input signal has nothing to do with it. And if you can't hear the difference between a surround field derived from 2-channel and fully discrete multi-channel audio, you need to make an appointment with an audiologist.