

In this tab, you should see options for choosing a sound device. Inside the Sound settings, you will see a tab called Output. Head over to your System Preferences in the Apple Menu, and look for the Sound icon. Fortunately, this problem is easy to fix. When MacOS first boots up, it sometimes does strange things when assigning speaker outputs, which can lead to radio silence. By now, you have tried to adjust volume controls, unplugged and replugged speakers, and tried to play media on a different device, but nothing seems to work. It doesn’t matter what video or app you pull up you get nothing. In this case, you get no sound at all from the speakers that you were using before the upgrade. This is for those of you who gladly upgraded but then found that your audio had cut out completely.
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I had all kinds of trouble getting anything to play at first, so I connected my Mac directly to my pre-pro, removing the powered HDMI splitter I was using. Now here's the weird thing: when I go to Speaker Set-up:Ĭlick left front and white noise comes out of left frontĬlick Center and white noise comes out of left AND right frontĬlick right front and white nose comes out right frontĬlick left surround and white noise comes out left frontĬlick right surround and white noise comes out right frontĮach has a different "device channel" assigned.

Tools -> Options -> Audio -> Audio Device HDMI (Core Audio), Open device with exclusive access in Unchecked, Integer mode is UncheckedĪpplications -> Audio MIDI Setup -> Output -> 44100 Hz 8ch-24bit integer (I've reset it to 48000 Hz twice.) Received the new HDMI input card today and got it installed. What messages do you get from MC, your pre-pro, etc? Does it "think" it's playing but it doesn't? I'm not trying to complicate the issue here. It might be worth turning on bitstreaming to see if that works. DD and DTS, on the other hand, "pack" that audio into a compressed stream that's carried in a different way. If you're sending DD or DTS audio from DVD, are you bitstreaming it? Or are you letting MC decode it? If MC is decoding it, it will be trying to send multi-channel PCM audio. The other part of this equation is how you are sending multi-channel audio. I would expect that the "real" HDMI port on a Mac mini would transmit multi-channel audio, just the same as the mini display port. This is the same as the Thunderbolt port on these systems.
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On Macs that don't have an HDMI port (like Macbook Pro laptops), you can plug in an adapter that goes from mini display port to HDMI and then use an HDMI display. It's a different display connector standard. It's used on monitors that have that kind of input. Mini display port and Thunderbolt use the same type of connector.
