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cfII

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Sometimes I really like my Mac. Times like these, I want to throw it against a wall. My old dv4 was easy plug in the hdmi and it automatically played whatever was on the screen. Cool. My Mac for some reason likes to show some wallpaper I had like two months ago but changed. Ok. I can live with that. So I drag my vlc player over to the tv. It maximizes and play but no sound. I go to options> sound output to tv nothing. Wtf. I want my pc back.
 
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DVI doesn't carry sound.

In System Preferences, set up your displays for mirroring or spanning, and set your sound output to the device you want.
 
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