I cant get the tv to go through the surround sound i can only get the surround sound to play when its a dvd playing do i need another wire to go from the dvd player or will it not work no matter what plz help

What are you trying to wire up exactly ?
If your optical. Port glows red, its an out put.if not then its an input.
Your surround system should be the last thing on your curcit.
Everything in to the TV, ie DVD etc,then run a fibre optic cable form the TV to the surround.

If your DVD disc supports it, you will have to enable surround sound from the DVD, as well as the speakers.

It will only play stations that are BROADCAST in surround sound

you need to plug rca cables into the audio out of your tv providing it has them then go to the setting menu in the tv go into the sound options and turn on surround sound

The optical audio out from the TV only works for the TV's tuner, probably. Hook-up optical from Cable/SAT and from PS3 boxes to DVD/Receiver.

look at the back of your tv does it have a audio out RCA jack?
it should do plug in the surround sound into that using RCA cables

if your tv does not have audio out RCA jack then you can

get a adapter which makes scart connectors turn into RCA jacks get that off ebay

plug the yellow line to the tv and connect the red and white to suround sound
but with this there are a few problems sound will only come out when surround sound is turned on and skys sound will never play out the tv
if you switch to a PS3 or something it will not play suround sound

yuo best option is the RCA plugs in the back of the tv

because you have not written the model number of the tv or the suround sound i cant help any further

If your tv and surround has an optical input/output.Then you can connect with an optical lead.This will then play the sound from whatever you are watching.You normaly select dig1 or input1 on the surround system.

you need to run red and white from your tv to the surround sound and the same from your dvd to surround sound

Check first your dvd player settings if it is in PAL or NTSC.

Just wire your TV audio out to one of the receivers (DVD player) audio in and select AUX when you want the TV sound to play through the surround sound. You also might want to turn the volume down or off on your TV to get the full surround sound feeling, but that's your call.