Audio over both HDMI and speakers

oxygene · 1 Jul 2014 at 11:57

Ok chaps I set up my gear at my gfs place recently, and I set things up so I have the below:

Now as you guys see, monitor 1 I use for gaming, monitor 2 I use for films / tv whatever I want to watch at the time. If the gf wants to watch the same stuff I do she just turns on the tv and switches to the right chan. Now the small issue here is that whenever she does that I have to go via the below control panel and set the tv (samsung) to default device.

Now what I'm hoping is theres a way to output to both speakers and tv at the same time and always. That way I can just press a mute button on the keyboard when we switch to tv, or keep them both going if I'm still sat there instead of watching the tv... But I cant find any options for that!

lude1962 · 1 Jul 2014 at 12:52

you cant have hdmi sound and sound via speakers at same time, windows only lets you select 1 output device at a time

oxygene · 1 Jul 2014 at 13:23

Dagnabbit! I was hoping there was some third party program which could clone it or something

Steveocee · 1 Jul 2014 at 13:44

There is.
VAC (virtual audio cable)
I've not used it myself but I was in a similar situation a while ago and the resounding answer was to use VAC to get around the problem.

Mana · 1 Jul 2014 at 13:47

Steveocee said:
There is.
VAC (virtual audio cable)
I've not used it myself but I was in a similar situation a while ago and the resounding answer was to use VAC to get around the problem.

VAC will be able to do exactly what you want.