How to access TV speakers

[oxcart]

I have connected my PC to my TV via the CVI connection. I get the picture but am not able to access the speakers on the TV. The speakers attached to the PC work perfectly. When I click on the speak icon in the bottom right corner only the PC speakers are listed. How do I access the TV speakers. Thank you.

[Grzwacz]

Greetings oxcart,

Welcome back to the forum.

I am not an HP employee.

I am not aware of a CVI connection?

You would have to do an HDMI connection from the PC to the TV to hear audio.

Regards

[oxcart]

Thank you for your reply. My mistake it is a DVI (?) connection, into the HDMI connection on the TV. I get the video but no audio. I speaker icon on the screen only shows the speakers that are connected to the PC.

[Grzwacz]

Hi oxcart,

You're very welcome.

You have to use an HDMI to HDMI connection to hear audio.

DVI cannot carry audio data.

Regards

[mdklassen]

If your PC has DVI-output, instead of HDMI output, then only the "video" is being sent to the TV.

You will need a cable from the "audio-out" port (either "line-out" on a desktop computer, or "headphones-out" on a notebook) connecting to the "audio-in" port(s) on your TV, to send the audio. 

You will probably have to configure the TV to select that "audio-in" port as the "active" audio port.

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[oxcart]

The problem was before my PC crashed I was able to audio and video transfered to the TV using the HDMI input and this cable. Now I can only get the video. There use to be two options under the speaker and if I selected the TV speaker as the main one it worked.

I can live with this as the PC speakers are right close to the TV but I use to be able to control the audio volume using the TV control.

Thank you for your help.

[Grzwacz]

Hi oxcart,

You're very welcome.

Try reinstalling the graphics driver.

This may fix the audio out using HDMI.

Regards

[mdklassen · Accepted solution]

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@oxcart wrote:

1. The problem was before my PC crashed I was able to audio and video transfered to the TV using the HDMI input and this cable.

2. Now I can only get the video.

3. There use to be two options under the speaker and if I selected the TV speaker as the main one it worked.

4. I can live with this as the PC speakers are right close to the TV

but I use to be able to control the audio volume using the TV control.

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1. Impossible, if you only have one cable (namely DVI-output-to-HDMI-input) between your computer and your TV.

If your computer is using DVI-output, only "video" is being sent to the TV.

If your computer is using HDMI-output, then both "audio" and "video" are being sent through the one HDMI-to-HDMI cable.

2. Correct, if you are using DVI-ouput from your computer.

3. Within Windows, you need to open the "Sound" application, and select the "Playback" option, and change it from "internal speakers" to the "audio-output".  Then, connect an audio-cable from the computer's audio-output port to the audio-input port on your TV.

4. On your TV, select the "audio-source" as being the audio-input port on your TV, and your TV's remote-control can be used to control the volume of the TV's speakers.

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[oxcart]

Happiness is, an audio system that works. It turns out that the reason the AMD HDMI Output device was not showing up was somewhere I told the system to disable it. When I asked it to Show Disabled Devices, there it was. When I clicked on it and made it my default everything worked.

Thanks to everyone for your help, understanding and time.

[Grzwacz]

Hi oxcart,

Good to see you are back in business.

Regards