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    Audio Spliiting Problems

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by tommyfarr, May 7, 2013.

  1. tommyfarr

    tommyfarr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys, got an odd one, i use my m11x pugged up to an lcd tv through hdmi, i wondered if i could pipe music through some bluetooth speakers and through hdmi at the same time. At the minute it will just swap from one to the other.
     
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  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I think you cannot do both due to HDMI restrictions, you would have to do a different combination.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, May 8, 2013
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  3. Dinosaur Brutus

    Dinosaur Brutus Notebook Geek

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    You would need to stream the audio and video individually. HDMI, as far as I know, does not allow this, so video will likely have to go through a DVI cable, and the audio will have to be streamed to an external splitter so that it can be delivered to the TV as well as the speakers at the same time (this is assuming that everything would be wired).

    It may be possible to get some software that does the splitting on your computer so that you can stream separately, but I'm not sure where you would look for something like that.
     
    Dinosaur Brutus, May 8, 2013
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