No sound with mirroring

I was having this trouble, whilst using VLC. I didn't think to go to VLC's audio - audio device. Problem solved for me.

Still spending far, far too much time getting new software to work, though. Nothing is as simple as it seems.

I figured out how to get audio to work with airplay mirroring using VLC. Click on the window for VLC (so it appears as the current app running at the top of your screen) and click Audio. From Audio's drop down menu, select Audio Device. You will notice it is currently set to play audio through your built in output. Click Airplay. Problem solved.

Note: You must have your mac hooked up to your apple tv and have a movie/show playing to access the Audio Device option.

Your welcome!

I am having this issue as well. I am not able to select 'Air Play' from the 'Select a device for sound output' window. Any suggestions?

macbook air 2013

Got it working by changing the audio output to my ATV first, and then go up to the top to turn on AirPlay. Little glitch but then the audio kicked in after a second or 2.

On a side note possibly related - Started the audio to the ATV when the hdmi cord was unplugged but the power was on. I saw a post that mentioned that it works after the ATV comes out of sleep. I just happened to do it by coincidence.

BTW- Can we get past having to preform voodoo to make this work? Do we really have to wait for the new OS? Seriously.

Have you tried changing the sound output in whatever media player you are using? I had the same problem with VLC and found out that you have to not only switch the audio output in your mac preferences but also go into the media player preferences and switch the output in that aswell.

Hope that might help!

This worked when nothing else did. Makes sense to kill coreaudio dead. Now we'll just see how long it stays working.

Dancudds wrote:

Oh and if you open terminal and run

sudo killall coreaudiod

you'll be able to change your System's audio output to Airplay finally. Wow - feels like running 1970s Unix!

for me the sulotion was simply to go to the sound under settings of the mac and change the output to the apple TV + increase the volume there.

Switching wi-fi network from 2.4 to 5 worked for me too.

Thanks TurdF3rguson, the "sudo killall coreaudiod" solved my problem as well.

Same thing is happening to me!

Reboot the APPLTV box works for me all the time.

DC Soup's solution solved this issue for me.

His solution was to do, in Terminal.app, the following commands:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Just for the benefit of others searching google, my issue was that my bluetooth speaker (Bose Mini) was paired properly, but wouldn't output any audio (despite software/System Preferences showing that it was paired properly) - audio was just coming through the laptop speakers instead. The only time this occurred was when an iHome speaker was available as an AirPlay speaker (even though it wasn't used by this computer - in fact it was in use by another computer).

The above terminal command to flush the cache immediately enabled sound through the paired bluetooth speaker.

Perfect! My output was muted, once I changed that it worked great!

I can get sound when mirroring on my ipad but not my macbook pro.

Preferences does not allow me to change sound output to apple tv even thought the option is not greyed out

My wireless network is via my bt router and everything else works with that

To me it seems like a problem with my macbook pro software Mavericks 10.9.4 and its connection with apple tv- but I do't know how to resolve that

Any help would be appreciated