03 Yukon XL Denali RSE DVD through speakers?

[jemersonl83]

Just bought an 03 Yukon XL Denali. It has the Bose system, Nav, and the Audiovox RSE DVD with wireless headphones.
The headphones work fine but I only have 3 sets. I want to be able to play the DVD audio through the speakers. I have tried putting in a DVD and hitting source as well as hitting band, cd, seeking through fm stations etc, but can't figure out how to get the DVD to play through the speakers.

Any ideas?

 

[gitrduun]

There should be a source button on your head unit and steering wheel to go through the sources, make sure the DVD player is on and then hit auxilliary on your head unit or toggle through the sources till RSE shows up on your head unit, this is also how I play my iPod, just put an RCA cable to the inputs in front of the DVD player. Hope this helps..

-j

 

[gitrduun]

If this doesn't work you have bigger problems than not having enough headphones lol

 

[jemersonl83]

That's how I thought it should work. It only gives me cd, am, fm 1, fm 2, and xm when cycling through sources. When I hit the cd source button on the Nav unit twice as the manual says to, it reads no disc. The cd works fine when hitting it once. It seems like I'm not getting communication between the RSE and the main audio and Nav system. Was this audiovox unit factory?

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Looked a little closer at it. I'm sure its not factory. What's a good aftermarket RSE that will integrate with the audio system and not break the bank?

 

[gitrduun]

I dont think that one is stock, it's a grey one ( Panasonic... . ) that's what I have in mine, I'd go to gm and run your numbers, cuz it might have been an aftermarket install, which would explain why you can't get the sound to work, cuz all you need for those aftermarket ones is power pretty well because the headphones can wireless straight from the unit .

 

[toneman]

I dont think that one is stock, it's a grey one ( Panasonic... . ) that's what I have in mine, I'd go to gm and run your numbers, cuz it might have been an aftermarket install, which would explain why you can't get the sound to work, cuz all you need for those aftermarket ones is power pretty well because the headphones can wireless straight from the unit .

+1; I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure GM wasn't using Audiovox-branded RSE units in their 2003-2006 full-size SUVs; my '04 RSE is a Panasonic unit as well, FWIW. Unless whoever installed that Audiovox unit knew what wires to tap into so that it can talk to the OEM radio (and/or vice-versa), there's no way you'd be able to get the RSE audio from the Audiovox to play over the speakers simply by pressing the CD button on the stock radio.

 

[gitrduun]

+1; I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure GM wasn't using Audiovox-branded RSE units in their 2003-2006 full-size SUVs; my '04 RSE is a Panasonic unit as well, FWIW. Unless whoever installed that Audiovox unit knew what wires to tap into so that it can talk to the OEM radio (and/or vice-versa), there's no way you'd be able to get the RSE audio from the Audiovox to play over the speakers simply by pressing the CD button on the stock radio.

Yeah I know I have seen them before I other people's but in all the cases they have been aftermarket ,but like I was saying all you need is power to the unit because I'm pretty sure that th headphones work from the DVD player and not the head unit. So it could have been that there was one there and it broke, and then they just used the power wire and ground to power it left there from the original unit. But your best bet is to call around to pick and pulls to see if they have anything, cuz buying from a stealership is gonna cost you

 

[jemersonl83]

Thanks guys. I'm gonna see how horrible the signal is from a decent fm transmitter. If its crappy ill start searching for a stock unit.

 

[gitrduun]

Monster usually has the best ones

 

[toneman]

Yeah I know I have seen them before I other people's but in all the cases they have been aftermarket ,but like I was saying all you need is power to the unit because I'm pretty sure that th headphones work from the DVD player and not the head unit. So it could have been that there was one there and it broke, and then they just used the power wire and ground to power it left there from the original unit. But your best bet is to call around to pick and pulls to see if they have anything, cuz buying from a stealership is gonna cost you

Understood; however, I was (attempting) to address the OP's initial/original concerns about being able to listen to the (aftermarket) RSE audio through the speakers and being able to access the RSE as an audio source via what I presume to be the factory head unit. In either/both cases, he will need to at a minimum run wiring from the aftermarket RSE to a third-party audio adapter if he wants to be able to run the aftermarket RSE audio through his factory audio system and factory head unit. That, or figure out which wires in the factory RSE harness (if his YDXL did originally come with RSE--I kinda doubt that it did, otherwise that Audiovox rear DVD RSE wouldn't be there in place of the OEM one) are for audio and source control.