If for some reason you need to connect a DVD player to your computer (at least for reasons of banal laziness), then, in principle, you can do this, even if you have to tinker.
Instructions
Step 1
Immediately stop all attempts to connect the DVD player to the computer using the USB cable. Firstly, a device conflict may occur (it will simply not be clear which of them is the “master” and who is the “slave”), and secondly, the USB connectors may simply not match.
Step 2
Purchase a PATA-USB adapter. Format the hard drive with the FAT32 file system. Record on it the music and videos you want to watch on your DVD player. Winchester in this situation will actually act as an ordinary flash drive.
Step 3
Buy a TV tuner or video capture card and connect through the appropriate connectors. However, their price is quite high, so their purchase should be justified.
Step 4
Another question if you decide to connect the DVD-player included in the set of equipment for home theater to your computer, if the quality of sound reproduction is of fundamental importance to you. But in this case, it will act as an intermediary between the speaker system and the computer's audio card, and only if the motherboard has a five-channel output.
Step 5
To connect the speaker system to the audio card in this way through a DVD player, take a wire with connectors "mini-jack on one end (for the card) and" tulip (for the jack in the player) - the connection will be established.
Step 6
Open the Sound menu in the Control Panel on your computer and specify the number of speakers in the hardware parameters (usually at least 5). This is necessary in order to adjust the audio playback settings to suit the new environment.
Step 7
Plug the DVD player into the network, specify the correct audio output channel in its settings. During playback, you can edit the equalizer values in the settings of the computer's sound card manually or use the DVD player menu for this purpose.
