alpine ida x200 to laptop

I did some searching with no luck. I have The Alpine IDA-X200 HU and A Toshiba Laptop. I'm looking for a way to play the audio from the laptop through the Stereo. I Miss my DVD player in my car, but a laptop stand and power inverter is Much cheaper than the Alpine In-dash DVD player. There are two connectors on the back of the HU other than the RCA outputs. I'm not sure on what either of these are for. I'm Hoping there's a Magic cable to go from the laptop straight into the HU that will give me what I'm looking for.UNLABELED Custom Car Club President

That unit does have built in audio input for Ipod and controller. You could go that route. not sure if this model will allow you to just use the headphone plug in for the sound from the Ipod sound input to hook up any audio device(some this works for). Would be easy to test though. All you would need is to run a headphone plug from the sound of the laptop to the headphone audio plug of the deck. You will lose ability to control the songs through the deck, they would have to be done from the PC, but may this may be workable solution.

https://images......com/images/168409/big/idax200.jpg Where is the head phone plug?UNLABELED Custom Car Club President

BTW.. I'm not Really worried about being able to change the track with the HU. All I want is the audio.UNLABELED Custom Car Club President

It doesn't have one. But i found the solution. Auxilary Input connector This plugs in to the CD changer slot giving you RCA input. So you would simply use a headphone to RCA plug from your PC to this.

Read above and click my link. That is the KCA-121B . That is what you need

AMAZING. I already have everything needed. Thank you VERY much. Only question i have left is When i have it switched for input, does that mean i ONLY have the subwoofer output? If im only using one of the RCA inputs, it the remaining one an input or output?UNLABELED Custom Car Club President

J.Reed, You and i were typing at the same time. lol. Thank you also. I now have two options. I think I am going to try the method provided by Mr. Idiot first simply because i already have a headphone-to-RCA cable.UNLABELED Custom Car Club President

i am an idiot wrote: http://www.alpine-usa.com/US-en/support/support_search.php?modelname=ida-x200 Page 47 of the owners manual explains switch position and which RCA jacks to use as input.

Yes this will work. I actually thought that civic had wrote this because the link was missing. this will work though and you need no adapters other than a headphone to RCA cord, Unless you need to use all the RCA outs. Then you would need the adapter I linked. sorry for the confusion on my part.