Saturday, February 10, 2024

No Audio When Connecting Computer Video to TV, From USB-C to HDMI

Perhaps you are trying to stream a video or pay per view sports game from your computer to the HDMI port on your TV. The video displays fine, but the audio doesn't play through the TV. Maybe the audio only plays on your computer or laptop.

I recently had this problem while streaming a soccer game from a pay per view site.  The solution was fairly simple.  The TV had not been recognized by the computer as an audio device.  The solution in Windows 11 was to start the Device Manager app,  and then click the icon for "Scan for hardware changes."

Use the Windows search button to find Device Manager. 

Start Device Manager

Click icon for "Scan for hardware changes"

Device manager will find your TV and add the correct audio driver.  

It worked for me, and I hope it works for you. Let me know in the comments.

How Telegram Group Admin's Can Unban a User.

Getting banned from a Telegram group for bad behavior isn't very difficult. But sometimes group administrators want to reverse a ban.  Telegram doesn't make it easy, and the tools to unban a user are well hidden in Telegram, and the path to find this tool is not intuitive.  I wrote this for group admins who are having trouble finding out how to unban a user.

How to Unban a User Using the Windows Telegram Client:

If you are a group administrator, and you are using the Windows Telegram client,  here are the steps.

Open Telegram and go to your group.

Click on the group name. This will take you to the Group Info page.

Click on the 3 stacked dots (vertical dots) in the upper right corner.

Select "Manage Group"

This will open a page called "Edit Group".  Now click on "Permissions."

From the Permissions page, click "Removed Users" to see a list of users who have been banned from the channel.

Now you can search for the user that want to unban, and then click "Delete" next to their name to remove them from this.
You can also add users to this ban list.  Click "Remove User" at the bottom of the page, find the user and click on them.
 

How to Unban a User Using the Android Telegram Client

The process is a little different in the Android Telegram client.  

Go to the group, and then tap on the group's photo.

Now tap on the Pen or Pencil icon to get to the "Edit" page.

On the Edit page, tap "Permissions".

On the Permissions page, tap "Removed Users."

On the Removed Users page, search for the person you want to unban. 

Tap the 3 vertical dots next to their name and then tap, "Delete from this list."

 

Let me know in the comments if this worked for you!  Good luck!