I sitting at our summer house with limited TV choices before our "cable" service is renewed. So, having gotten a "new" (well at least larger) Plasma (and TV display through the SCART connection from our cable provider- Hyundai PD421) screen with gazillions of ports to connect to stuff I thought of running Netflix through my laptop (HP Probook 4530s) and Fedora using a VGA cable. (Yes I know ... Chromecast/phone combo).
Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained that sound is coming from the laptop, not the speakers connected to the Hyundai screen. I guess this has to do with the computer not recognizing the speakers because it connected through VGA? There is a HDMI port on the lappy but not on the Hyundai screen. Is there a way to get Fedora to pick up the speakers attached to the screen?
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 08:11 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
I sitting at our summer house with limited TV choices before our "cable" service is renewed. So, having gotten a "new" (well at least larger) Plasma (and TV display through the SCART connection from our cable provider- Hyundai PD421) screen with gazillions of ports to connect to stuff I thought of running Netflix through my laptop (HP Probook 4530s) and Fedora using a VGA cable. (Yes I know ... Chromecast/phone combo).
Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained that sound is coming from the laptop, not the speakers connected to the Hyundai screen. I guess this has to do with the computer not recognizing the speakers because it connected through VGA? There is a HDMI port on the lappy but not on the Hyundai screen. Is there a way to get Fedora to pick up the speakers attached to the screen?
Hmm, maybe the simplest way is to get Chromecast to work with Fedora?
On 05/05/2016 11:20 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 08:11 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained that sound is coming from the laptop, not the speakers connected to the Hyundai screen. I guess this has to do with the computer not recognizing the speakers because it connected through VGA? There is a HDMI port on the lappy but not on the Hyundai screen. Is there a way to get Fedora to pick up the speakers attached to the screen?
Hmm, maybe the simplest way is to get Chromecast to work with Fedora?
If there's no HDMI connector, how are you going to hook up the Chromecast to the TV?
On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 23:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 05/05/2016 11:20 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 08:11 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained that sound is coming from the laptop, not the speakers connected to the Hyundai screen. I guess this has to do with the computer not recognizing the speakers because it connected through VGA? There is a HDMI port on the lappy but not on the Hyundai screen. Is there a way to get Fedora to pick up the speakers attached to the screen?
Hmm, maybe the simplest way is to get Chromecast to work with Fedora?
If there's no HDMI connector, how are you going to hook up the Chromecast to the TV?
Oh craps ... it uses hdmi on that end? (0 experience with chromecast). Audio cable it is then, and I thought it was the VGA-connection that was the problem so I wasn't totally retarded anyway =) /Martin S
On 05/05/2016 11:11 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Viewing Netflix this way works nicely but then my son complained that sound is coming from the laptop, not the speakers connected to the Hyundai screen. I guess this has to do with the computer not recognizing the speakers because it connected through VGA? There is a HDMI port on the lappy but not on the Hyundai screen. Is there a way to get Fedora to pick up the speakers attached to the screen?
Unlike HDMI, VGA doesn't have an audio channel. You will need to run an audio cable from your headphone jack to the TV.
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