display - Only play audio on HDMI source

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2014-07
  • DustinDavis

    I'm not even sure how to sum this into a proper question. My setup is the following:

    Intel HD Graphics (onboard video Intel H61 HDMI)

    • Running 1 monitor from DVI
    • Running Digital TV from HDMI

    The HDMI is connected to a "28" Digital TV" with speakers and such. I also have a regular set of speakers on my system (on-board audio).

    How do I configure my setup to play audio on the Digital TV ONLY when there is video/content playing on that display? For example, if I open a youtube video on my main monitor, the audio will come from my speakers and when I drag the video to the digital tv, the audio will come from the tv.

    I don't even know if this is possible. At the moment I can set the HDMI as the default audio source, but then all sound plays on the TV instead of my speakers.

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  • Pops

    My laptop has an HDMI out port and my new TV has HDMI in ports. Hooking them up so that I can use the laptop to play movies with sound on the TV works fine. However, I haven't been able to find a way to send out just video without sound. Sometimes I want to keep the audio coming through my laptop speakers so I can put headphones on and not have everyone around me tell me to turn the sound down... is there a way to do that?


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  • Jon Skeet

    You haven't said which operating system you're using, but on Windows I believe you can just change the default playback device in via the Sound control panel applet. It will probably change to HDMI automatically when you plug the cable in, but then you should be able to just go into control panel and switch it back to your laptop.

    Alternatively, your media player may have options for which device to use for sound.

  • Udit

    Follow this steps after connecting the HDMI cable.

    1. go to control panel
    2. Hardware and Sound
    3. Manage Audio Devices
    4. Select speaker/hp
    5. make Default and apply

    this should work if you have windows 7.

  • slhck

    if you have Windows 7, go to Control Panel → Sound → Manage Audio Devices. In Playback disable the device (e.g. Samsung if you have a Samsung external monitor) by selecting and right clicking the device.

    You can re-enable the desired audio output source as required. Make sure you also right click and check Show Disabled Devices.

  • LinGows

    The answers that are given thus far might not work. If you are using a laptop, when it is plugged into an external device through HDMI it will always default to the new device you have plugged in, again even if you set the default device to your laptop, it will again reset when unplugged.

    The only way to be sure that it will not reset every time you need to go to the TV/Monitor and disable the sounds device (ie) LG399502 (model number only an example) if needed again you need to re-enable this device.

    Hope that helps