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I connected my Surface via HDMI to watch some movies on the home theater system, but I'm only hearing sound through the Surface speakers. How do I get audio to go through HDMI so that I can use my nice home theater sound system?
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Hi all.
I found probably a solution. When I connected the HDMI I only heard the sound in the surface and at the sound devices box the HDMI option won't appear, so I get in into Device Manager and Right click on my Surface and Scan for HW changes, then the sound starts to listen on the Home Theater. I expect this probably works in most of cases like me.
Regards.
Greetings all,
Please contact the manufacturer of you television for furthers support and possible firmware updates. This feature works with other TVs.
Use the Sound applet in control panel to check what audio devices are installed. If you have a choice make sure the right one is selected.
With 11 pages on this thread and it is already answered few are going to see your question and have you read it through and looked at the possible solutions? If you have then it might be better to start your own question.
Detail what you have tried and what your hardware is, with laptops because everything is on the motherboard getting audio onto the HDMI is normally inbuilt but with desktops it could be different. Even with a desktop if you are using an integrated HDMI/sound card then that is the same as a laptop but if you have a discrete graphics/sound interface then that requires different settings.
I connected my Surface via HDMI to watch some movies on the home theater system, but I'm only hearing sound through the Surface speakers. How do I get audio to go through HDMI so that I can use my nice home theater sound system?
The same thing happened to me; I could only hear the sound through my Surface's speakers.
However, I plugged in a pair of headphones, waited a second, then unplugged them. When I unplugged them, the sound suddenly began playing through the HDMI cable to the TV.
It's worth a try.
Just to clarify, this is a known incompatibility issue that has existed for over a year. It only occurs with some brands of TVs (Visio, LG, others). No it isn't the TVs, they work fine with HDMI from laptops. It isn't the cable and resetting the Surface doesn't cure the problem. The problem is in the OS and or driver. The 8.1 update didn't address the problem. Microsoft has focused there energy elsewhere (new models), so don't expect it to be fixed. It appears it is also a problem with their new RT model.
This was supposed to be my lightweight media control device but it doesn't function as that.
My solution (this is where I punted) was to get a Google ChromeCast and use the Google Chrome browser from my OLD laptops. I will be installing Chrome on my Android phone also. However, Google Chrome does NOT, repeat NOT, suppport Windows RT! (like I said punted!)
Still no solution for the Surface RT.
