Ohh glory day! And no, I’m not using an enumerator. This is actual video AND sound from my PS4. So, my friend discovered a way for me not to have to pay for a $500+ monitor I don’t need (to just play my PS4 games on it).
Mainly, this thing. It’s an HDMI Audio Converter, that extracts the Audio and Video to a format your computer will recognize.
So even without it, I can still get video of my PS4 on my monitor. I just couldn’t hear sound. This gives me that option. I also got a 3.5mm to RCA Audio Cable to go with it. Surprisingly, that thing is the only one I could find on Amazon that was willing to not ship it on May 2nd…
When I first tried the converter, I couldn’t get it to work. I thought for sure Sony had really kicked my ass with their stupidity of not having a Line In option on the back of their PS4s. Then I thought “Wait.. it’s an Input, isn’t it? Wouldn’t I need to put it in an Input jack?”, then I saw the Line In jack and put it in.
Again, it didn’t work at first, then I saw a volume control. Put it all the way up, flipped the menus and heard sound! WOOT!! It WORKS! 😀
Tried playing Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty. Plays good, and the fact I can hear audio, I’m very happy. I don’t have to strain my eyes over to my TV to see it.
Tomorrow. Hopefully anyway, I’ll be getting another thing to attach to the back of the converter that’ll give me the ability to switch between “secondary computer monitor” and “PS4”.