I wanna know is there a way I can make sound played from firefox play through my monitor while sound from vlc media player play through my headphones.I know if I have my monitor as my default and I play a game I can set the game in the preferences to play through my headphones which allows me to play sound through my headphones and monitor.
Windows only allows one default playback device. e.g. "Speakers" or "HDMI". There may be some third party application that will allow doing what you want, but the basic Windows install will not. (This is the same on Vista and Windows 8 too).
In VLC under tools/preferences/audio/ change output module from automatic to WaveOut and under device pick what your headphones are connected to (needs to be on a different device than your monitor unless the device has more than one output in playback devices for windows.).
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