Running Win10 on a Dell XPS8900 with a Nvidia GTX745 graphics card.
HDMI cable goes from (GTX745 card) > (4in x 2out monoprice switch) > (Samsung HDTV set).
I rt-click the speaker icon in the notification area, click "Sounds" and the Sound window opens. I click the "Playback" tab.
Scenario-1:
When the 4x2 switch is set to the Dell PC as the input and I boot the PC, Win10 sees the Samsung TV and the Sound\Playback tab shows 3 playback devices:
... NVIDIA Output
... SAMSUNG
... Speakers \ Headphones
This is all good. I can select SAMSUNG as the default and I can hear audio from the PC on the Samsung TV set.
Scenario-2:
But if the 4x2 switch is NOT set to the PC as an input when I boot the PC, Win10 does not list the Samsung TV set in Sound\Playback, which only shows 2 playback devices:
... NVIDIA Output
... Speakers \ Headphones
When I rt-click the playback pane, it displays the following two as being checked:
x Show disabled devices
x Show disconnected devices
So this is not the reason that the Samsung TV is not being shown.
Now if I set the 4x2 switch to the Dell PC as the input, Win10 sees the Samsung TV, the TV screen turns blue and I can move my VLC video player to the Samsung TV. Video displays on the TV but there is no sound.
So my question is: Is there a way to tell Win10 to register the Samsung TV's audio when I'm in Scenario-2 without having to do a restart?
HDMI cable goes from (GTX745 card) > (4in x 2out monoprice switch) > (Samsung HDTV set).
I rt-click the speaker icon in the notification area, click "Sounds" and the Sound window opens. I click the "Playback" tab.
Scenario-1:
When the 4x2 switch is set to the Dell PC as the input and I boot the PC, Win10 sees the Samsung TV and the Sound\Playback tab shows 3 playback devices:
... NVIDIA Output
... SAMSUNG
... Speakers \ Headphones
This is all good. I can select SAMSUNG as the default and I can hear audio from the PC on the Samsung TV set.
Scenario-2:
But if the 4x2 switch is NOT set to the PC as an input when I boot the PC, Win10 does not list the Samsung TV set in Sound\Playback, which only shows 2 playback devices:
... NVIDIA Output
... Speakers \ Headphones
When I rt-click the playback pane, it displays the following two as being checked:
x Show disabled devices
x Show disconnected devices
So this is not the reason that the Samsung TV is not being shown.
Now if I set the 4x2 switch to the Dell PC as the input, Win10 sees the Samsung TV, the TV screen turns blue and I can move my VLC video player to the Samsung TV. Video displays on the TV but there is no sound.
So my question is: Is there a way to tell Win10 to register the Samsung TV's audio when I'm in Scenario-2 without having to do a restart?