DVD from DVD-ROM Drive to TV

[Cirerrek]

Building a new computer for my fiancee with a VGA PNY Geforce4 Ti4200, that has a TV out on it, which I believe is an S-Video hookup. The TV is in a different room from where her computer will be.

My first question is how long can the S-Video cable be? Does shorter make a difference?

My second question is, how will the sound work? Do I run audio in/out cables from the sound card to my receiver or is the sound transfered along with the DVD recording?

I mostly use my computer for blasting things and writing the occassional word or excel document, so I am total noob at this kind of stuff. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Components:
MSI nForce K7N415 Pro
AMD XP 1800
512 MB Corsair DDR2100
On board sound
Toshiba 16X DVD-ROM
VGA PNY Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB DDR
Windows XP Pro

Thanks,

[RJ]

Hi,

on www.tvtool.com you'll find good information about this stuff.

Length does matter (I don't know the actual numbers, though), and audio is extra. The s-video cable only transferres the video.

RJ

[HAL9000]

Radio Shack makes a neat little gadget that is wireless and will transmit your audio and video from your computers output to the TV's input getting rid of the problem of long cable runs. I went with an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 so I could have RF remote to be able to control the DVD from a different room.

[Cirerrek]

Greetings,

That site does have some decent info on it, thanks for the link RJ.

For this kind of stuff, I would normally have gone the ATI All-in-Wonder route, but the TV OUT capabilities were sort of the by product of going for a DVI OUT so that the videocard would have a totally digital connection with a LCD Display. The TV OUT wasn't really in the initial plan.

That Radio Shack Gizmo sounds pretty slick, HAL. I might have to check that out.

Thanks gentlemen,