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    Headphone Jack

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by gogeta2006, Jun 26, 2011.

  1. gogeta2006

    gogeta2006 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Guys,

    Im sorry for such a silly question but I wanted to ask you is it possible to output sound through BOTH headphone jacks?

    I was trying to do that but it didnt work.


    Please let me know.

    Thank you
     
    gogeta2006, Jun 26, 2011
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  2. UberJason

    UberJason Notebook Consultant

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    It should work. I had a problem making that work on my M11x a while back; my problem was that I didn't have the Realtek audio stuff running (because it annoyed me). When I made that process run again and rebooted, it worked fine. Maybe that's your problem too?
     
    UberJason, Jun 26, 2011
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    TitanGod Notebook Evangelist

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    Sound through both ports???

    Highly doubtful, windows doesn't output sound form the "same" program to 2 different outputs. Unless the program has it's own audio controls like programs for mixers and DJs

    If it were 2 different programs and one was using HDMI for example and other was using the headphone jack then the computer can output 2 different audios.

    I've been trying for years to output through both headphone jacks and it doesn't seem possible. You can get a headphone splitter on amazon or ebay.
     
    TitanGod, Jun 26, 2011
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  4. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    Yeah It work, I just tried it (Actually I doing it right now :D ), the sound just came out for both jack, I iTune to do this.

    But I didnt connect it to the separate monitor or whatsoever, all I do it jack in my Sennheiser HD 448, and a Logitech headset, and play a song, me and my brother can listen to do just like a separate music player.
     
    CGSDR, Jun 27, 2011
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    Yea.. Id imagine both ports would work so you could share the sound if 2 people watching a movie..
     
    Bmc401, Jun 28, 2011
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    Again, it does work - I've plugged two different earphones into the two jacks simultaneously and you get sound out of both. But the RealTek audio process or service or whatever must be running.
     
    UberJason, Jun 28, 2011
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    Yeah, for this i'm not sure if it still work, because what I done is just for the the sound to come out of a single program, so what if I have 2 monitors and both use diff program like one is on WMP another is on VLC, lol
     
    CGSDR, Jun 28, 2011
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    gogeta2006, Jun 29, 2011
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