Dual Displays, Separate Audio

[MisterKrazee]

I have an Asus Radeon HD 6850 and an Asus M4A88T-V motherboard. I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'm wondering if it is feasible to have separate audio through each display. One display is a Sony Bravia TV connected through HDMI. My main monitor is an HP connected with DVI. I know DVI does not carry audio, but the monitor has a headphone jack port. Although, when I plug the headphone jack into the audio on the computer, the sound switches from HDMI to the monitor speakers. I'd like to be able to watch movies on the TV and still receive audio through the monitor pertaining to whatever I'm working on. It seems that search functions, including google, are close to useless in this day and age.

 

[Ross Ridge]

Although, when I plug the headphone jack into the audio on the computer, the sound switches from HDMI to the monitor speakers. I'd like to be able to watch movies on the TV and still receive audio through the monitor pertaining to whatever I'm working on. It seems that search functions, including google, are close to useless in this day and age.

Make sure you're connecting the green line-out jack on the back of your PC to the line-in of your HP montitor. Don't use the headphone jack on the front of your PC. Try to leave it connected like this all the time so jack detection isn't an issue.

You can switch which output device, your motherboard's bulit-in sound card or your video card's bulit-in sound card, is the default audio device using the "Sound" control panel. Some programs and games will let you choose which audio output device to use but most will only use the default device that's active when they start. You might have to use the Sound control panel to switch to the HDMI audio output before starting your movie player, and then use the control panel to switch it back to the motherboard's output before starting whatever you're working on.

If you're lucky your movie player will have it's own setting for which audio device it uses. Either way it's not that hard to use two seperate audio devices on Windows at the same time.

 

[jtvang125]

I believe you cannot have 2 separate audio devices playing at the same time. Only one can be the default and that means manually switching in the Sound control panel.

 

[Soundmanred]

Nope, won't work.

 

[Ross Ridge]

I believe you cannot have 2 separate audio devices playing at the same time. Only one can be the default and that means manually switching in the Sound control panel.

Blah. I just tested it, and you're right, at least partially. Switching the default changes the device current active programs are using in Windows 7. It didn't work that way before (Windows XP?), after switching the default device programs would continue using the old device.

Still you can have two seperate audio devices playing at the same time if at least one of the programs you're using lets you explicitly choose the output device. That still works at least.

 

[piasabird]

Technically you can not have separate audio. However, what you do with the audio when it leaves the computer is up to you. I use a simple stereo miniplug that is a splitter y adapter, that I purchased from radio shack years ago. Dont expect to get more than a stereo splitter from something like that. I suppose you might get better audio if you went from you computer thru HDMI to your TV and then output it from the TV to your comptuer speakers.

This is what it looks like (Never used this store before)
http://www.svideo.com/ats21055.html

 

[Ross Ridge]

Technically you can not have separate audio.

If it's technically not possible then why am I able to get seperate audio on my computer?

However, what you do with the audio when it leaves the computer is up to you. I use a simple stereo miniplug that is a splitter y adapter...

This is what he's getting now, just on two sets of speakers instead of one. It doesn't give him what he's asking for, the movie audio seperate from the rest.

 

[Auric]

Use a player having device selection such as MPC-HC.

 

[Palbosa]

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