Output sound from PC via soundcard and HDMI out at the same time?

SemiHollowCarrot

Windows 7 PC. I have a pretty nice gaming rig setup with video duplicated to my monitor and my LCD TV across the room. I can't figure out how to get sound to play through both my speakers hooked up to my PC and my TV via the HDMI cable at the same time.

From browsing around the net I've gotten the impression that I can't actually do this. Any ideas?

Artreus

The way I have solved that is that sound goes to neither computer speakers nor tv speakers because tv speakers are crap.

Get a home theater system and put the sound out through that.

SemiHollowCarrot

That wouldn't solve my problem as my TV and PC are separate entities. I wouldn't want sound piping through just one system all the time, hence why I need both.

Le_Goat

To be honest, I don't think it's possible to do both: it's one or the other. HDMI is able to handle both audio and video. When the system detects an audio port in use, it will use that one. I'd compare it to having speakers plugged into the back, but then plugging headphones into the front; it won't play both at the same time.

I could be very wrong about this, but to my knowledge it's one or the other, not both

Artreus

Apparently the only way around it is using a media player that can select a different audio source.

But that has very limited uses

Dehumanized

You can use a tool like Virtual Audio Cable to accomplish the desired outcome.

Draygo

Dehumanized wrote: »

You can use a tool like Virtual Audio Cable to accomplish the desired outcome.

I do this.