What are the green black and orange ports?
The orange cable carries the center and subwoofer channels, the green cable carries the front left and right channels and the black cable carries the rear left and right channels.
What color cord is for audio?
They are often color-coded, yellow for composite video, red for the right audio channel, and white or black for the left channel of stereo audio. This trio (or pair) of jacks can often be found on the back of audio and video equipment.
What is the green audio jack for?
Unless your computer is very old, the jacks are color-coded green for line-out — for speakers or headphones — blue for line-in and pink for a microphone.
Can yellow video cable be used for audio?
Yes, it will work, I have done this many times to re-purpose cables installed in home theater and commercial AV. The RGB cables for component video (RGB) and composite video (yellow) are just 75 ohm impedance coaxial cables with RCA ends, same type typically used in red and white for stereo audio.
What are the ports on a sound card?
The ports on the back of the card vary depending on the Sound card that you buy. A basic Sound Card would have a pink Line In Mic (Microphone), a lime-green Line Out Front (Speakers, and Headphones), a light-blue Line In (Mp3 player, Musical instruments), and possibly a Games Port.
Can I plug green into yellow?
If you have more than one set of component inputs, it’s the first set that generally works with standard AV cables. Look for a set that has a green input with yellow around it, or the word video just above or below it. Plug the yellow end of the Wii A/V cable into this green Y input.
Is red a mic or headset?
However, on most boards, the red connects a microphone, the green are stereo “front” speakers and blue may be for a subwoofer or maybe for “rear” speakers if your board supports surround sound.
Is it better to plug headphones into motherboard?
Yes, you usually get better sound quality from the back ports. The driver will treat the front ports separately and often will not apply features like that to the front ports.
Can you use 3 RCA for audio?
Thanks! Any 3 RCA cables will work.
What is the green port on the back of my computer?
Typically, the mouse port is green and the keyboard port is purple. On new computers, these ports have been replaced by USB.
What color is the audio line on a sound card?
In many cards, the microphone connector will be pink, the line out or headphone will be lime green, and the stereo line in will be light blue. Additional jacks may be present on newer soundcards for rear and mid surround speakers. There is a wildly accepted color standard for computer sound card input…
What do the different colored audio jacks mean on a sound card?
Stereo cards with just two audio channels will have only the green (output), blue (input) and pink (microphone) jacks. A few sound cards with 8 (7.1) audio channels do not provide the gray (Middle Surround Speakers) connector.
What are the different colors of the headphone jacks for?
One is audio out for speakers, the other two are MIC and headphone jacks. I think it’s Green > Green, Black > Blue and Red > Orange Click to expand…
What colors do car speakers come in?
Pink. Microphone. Light Blue. Stereo Line In. Orange. Subwoofer and Center out. Black. Rear Surround Speakers for 5.1 and 7.1 systems. Gray.