I’ve recently taken to watching movies on line through Amazon’s streaming video. I can watch them just fine on my Dell XPS with Ubuntu. However, I wanted to try and push them to my HDTV and watch them on a large screen.
When I tried it, the video was fine, but no audio.
Then I found this blog post. Your mileage may vary, but for me, I just told the audio settings to use the HDMI output and it worked fine.
Now I can watch movies on my big screen TV.
I did need to purchase an HDMI rat tail adapter and some HDMI cable, to make this possible.
That was not inexpensive. I was able to get these items at my local Best Buy.
Another thing I did related to this, was purchase the NFL pre-season pass for $20.00 so I can watch all the pre-season games on demand. Normally I’m not that big of an NFL fan, but so many of my favorite BSU football players are on different teams this year, I wanted to see how they did in professional football.
This too works fine on the Dell.
I was not even aware it did Wi-Di! I’ll look into it. That would liberate my laptop from the HDMI cable. *heading to Google to investigate…
Hey Ken, have you tried the Wi-Di (Wireless Display) capabilities on the XPS13? I have it on the XPS15 laptop with which I’m currently writing this message, but I’d have to buy the Wi-Di receiver to plug into the TV. I haven’t checked whether that also streams audio to the TV or not.