Watch Video from One Mac, on Another (not Audio)

Hi All,
Here's what I'd like to do:
Step 1: Set a movie to play on my Macbook Pro.
Step 2: Have the video play on my iMac, and the audio out of my Macbook Pro.
The reasoning:
The new iMac doesn't have a firewire input for my Firewire 410, which connects to external speakers.
My Macbook Pro however connects seamlessly to the hardware and then to my speakers.
So, the need is to be able to watch the video on my iMac, but audio come out of my Macbook Pro...
An alternative to the above situation is the following:
Step 1: Set a movie to play on my iMac
Step 2: Have the audio come out of my Macbook Pro.
Any solutions?
Thanks,
Sean

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If you wnat to use a Firewire 400 device with it, you will also need a Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 cable like this one, or you can use an 800 to 400 adaptor like this one & a Firewire 400 cable that you already have.
I use the Apple adaptor & an 800 to 400 adaptor with FW 400 cables I already have to attach Firewire 400 external hard drives to my 2012 iMac. That works quite well. You could do something similar with your M-Audio box, although as I mentioned earlier, the M-Audio drivers may not work well with Mountian Lion.

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