The collection of colored jacks on the back of your desktop are all related to analog audio. Each one takes a 3.5mm cable ...

I'm afraid I don't know too terribly much about audio hardware, so forgive what might be a dumb question. I'm trying to plug a mono microphone into the stereo microphone input of my Panasonic DVC30 ...

I'm not sure if this is a "buy a box" issue, a "buy a better cable" issue, or "you're SOL". I have a desktop computer with a couple of audio input jacks (a mic jack and a line-in jack; nothing special ...