Help with Surround Sound, TV and Xbox 360

Posted by SEP990i
Right i need abit of help here really.

I have a surround sound system which comprises of sub and 6 speakers the sub has the audio sockets on the back (red and white plugs) and obviously the clips for the audio wire.

My TV (Samsung) has 2 scart sockets and the audio and video sockets (red, white and yellow plugs).

All i want to be able to do is use my surround sound all the time instead of the TV speakers and then when i want to use my 360 also the surround will work for this instantly aswell. I just cant figure out how to wire it up, every way i try doesnt work.

Any advice please i really am stuck.

Thanks James

Posted by fatreg
surely you just get some phono cables ie red and white and plug em in?

fatreg

Posted by SEP990i
i thought it was like that aswel but i plug the 360 in say via scart and then plug the surround sound in via the phono leads but these are like 2 totally different channels?

Posted by govigov
the video goes into samsung and the audio to the sub, right?

Posted by SEP990i
i did plug the 360's video into the TV and the audio into the sub and this worked with the 360 but then when i was just watching normal telly the sound didnt come from the surround sound which i really want it to do.

Posted by themarques
Ok correct me if I am wrong but I had a similar setup as you, the Xbox has a digital signal socket which is what I was using, but then I had a decoder for the 5.1 and then the speakers connected to that.

So does you 5.1 system not have a digital input?