
But wait, there's something wrong: you see the window playing a video on that monitor/TV but the sound output remains on the first one!įigure 1.


You open your favorite media player, start playback of your favorite movie and send the player window to another monitor/TV. Now you've got a multi-monitor environment where you can toss windows between displays at will. Well, it's that simple, and you connect another monitor/TV (probably, located in another room). Thus, you can connect a monitor or a TV with its own speakers, and that's great: single cable, single connector, single plug - and you get the full rich visual and audial experience with no fuss. Today most of video displays connect to a PC via modern HDMI/DisplayPort interfaces that can transmit both video and audio information at once.

How to force any multimedia application to play its sound depending which monitor its window is on Introduction
