Listening with two headphones simultaneously?

So this might be a stupid question but I can't get both to work together. When I plug the second headphone in than the sound automatically starts coming from the main speakers.

I read in a review that it was possible "two headphone jacks -- so multiple users can listen to headphones in relative privacy."

 

I don't have any hints for you, other than that it works for me. My wife and I watched a movie together on a flight a week ago using the dual headphone jacks.

 

What a lovely visual image that paints. Marketing could have a field-day with that image.

Sorry, anyway, true, 2 x headphones work.

Remember when watching a video or multi-channel DVD STEREO is your friend.

If you have 5.1 surround set up (Realtek), one set of headphones will just get sound effects while the other headphone will get dialogue from centre speaker.

So, set Realtek to STEREO, plug in two headphones and you're good to go.

Note - Avatar DVD audio channels sound quite interesting when listening to each of the 2x6 channels individually via headphones... little bit of a geek moment there.

 

yeah I tried that, went to the Realtek audio manager and changed it to stereo from 5.1 but as soon as I plug in the second one, the sound starts coming from the speakers and i can't hear anything in the two headphones.

 

You should be able to plug the headphones in the second audio 3.5mm port and it should pass audio to the headphones and not the notebook speakers.
This can be tested with nothing plugged into the first audio 3.5mm port, thus allowing you to test that both your headphones work using only the second port.

Just to make double sure the mic port does not provide stereo headphone output, unless used in multi-channel output audio configuration in which case it only provides your back/surround speakers.

So yes, technical using two 3.5mm stereo headphones DOES work, but you just have to find out why it doesn't for you.