iPod AV cable audio out not working

asharv

Make sure cable is firmly attached to the iPod. What menu are you using to play the vedio on the iPod over the TV?

Rick

We have the same problem with a iPod Video 30G. The cable is correctly fixed in the iPod and the TV and when we play a video we can hear a very, very low sound if the level of the TV and the iPod is maximum.
When we play a song we cannot hear anything.

Same problem here. I just bought an 80G Video iPod. I have the AV cable from apple and a universal dock. Connecting from iPod headphone jack to the TV gives terrible sound, too low and you have to turn it up so loud you hear tons of static. Connecting through the dock is no better. Ironically, in my informal tests it seems to me that the volume of the signal coming out of the dock's headphone is lower than than when coming directly out of the iPod! (the dock is plugged into the wall).

Plugging the audio out into a stereo works a little better, but it's impractial when doing movies if the video line in is not close enough to the stereo line in.

Do the 3rd party A/V docks work any better?



80G video ipod

You were doing alright until you said you switch cables Red and Yellow.. Mistake.
If your cables are Apple or IPOD compatible then read the following the advice I gave to another post.
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First make sure that your Video/output cables are compatible with the IPOD.
Then make sure you IPOD have the correct Video setting output.
TV= ON; Signal = NTSC and if your using HDTV set use Widescreen is ON.; Off will should work as well.

When you connect to TV make sure the Color Cable connection are correct.
Yellow is Video has to connect to Yellow; it’s not optional!
Then Match your Audio (left) White and (Right) Red cables

Check your IPOD Video setting!

Make sure the Video setting equals TV output ON.
The output should work like any other standard Video
and Audio circuit.

Then configure TV set for IPOD Input.

Compaq PC 6370US / 1GB Ipod Nano & 80GB Video Windows XP Pent 2.53 GHZ 512MHZ MB RAM 120GB HD

Also check to make sure your Volume cutoff level is up high in the "Settings" menu. It comes very low when you first get the video iPods. Crank it up and you should get sound.

How do you configure the TV for iPod input?

Yep, cranked all the way up. It's no good, the line-out level on iPods is really low. Either that, or the line-in on TVs and VCRs (I've tried several) is pretty bad; the one stereo receiver I tried worked ok. (Ironically, I plugged it into the phono-in, which they tell you not to do, but this worked ok for me)

It will depend on how your TV is setup to received Audio and Video component input.

In addition, you may have to select a certain Video input on your TV to get the IPOD signal.

Read your TV manual for configuring TV to receive external Audio/Video equipment.




Compaq PC 6370US / 1GB Ipod Nano & 80GB Video Windows XP Pent 2.53 GHZ 512MHZ MB RAM 120GB HD

Your IPOD,line-out output level should be normal..and should
be an ample source for TV or other Audio.Visual equipment.

Compaq PC 6370US / 1GB Ipod Nano & 80GB Video Windows XP Pent 2.53 GHZ 512MHZ MB RAM 120GB HD

I'[ve tried everything, and I only get audio output. I tried every output on several TV's and I dont even get audio, is this cable for real, or just a bust? plz help!

I started experiencing exactly the same problem after updating my 60GB iPod that I bought in June to 1.2. My iPod played audio perfectly fine through the TV, until this update, and then it stopped after the update (I can faintly hear it if a crank the TV volume).

The other iPod in the house, also a 60GB, bought in July, played fine before 1.2 and now won't play audio either after updating to 1.2.

I think this is a bug introduced by the 1.2 update -- I changed no configuration on my TV, the only change was the iPod software version.

I'm disappointed, as the main reason I purchased a video model was so I could watch them on my TV, so I feel like Apple has not delivered.

Windows XP

ah, i see, you mean just setting the tv to use the external input. I can do that, the problem is getting the audio to be audible w/o having to turn the iPod all the way up to full blast and the TV volume up to full.

I still think the iPod line-out is weak. I'm thinking about buying one of those fancy 3rd party AV docks, in the hopes that they boost the signal. Does anybody know about this? Do any 3rd party docks amplify the signal any??

I have the same problem and I have the DLO dock. It was working fine before. I think the person below who thinks it's a bug in the new Apple SW for the ipod is correct. I have all cables hooked up properly. The video settings to TV out and my tv is set to the correct spot it's plugged into. If it IS a bug, how do we get Apple to acknowledge and fix it?

One way would be for some people to confirm it directly, i.e. try restoring the old version of the SW, testing it, installing 1.2 and testing it again, and then posting about it. Unfortunately it sounds pretty impractical. I don't really want to go to the trouble of wiping the ipod and starting over.