DX80 HDMI to MAC Mini no Sound

Just deployed a DX80 to customer with a Mac Mini as their workstation. When connecting to mac mini via HDMI the mac mini is not detecting the HDMI as a sound device. Only option under sound setup is the internal speaker. I have tried power cycle off the Mac mini and DX80 and no luck. When I connect the Mac mini to my samsung tv via HDMI both audio and video work as expected. When connecting the DX to DVD player or XBOX sound and video work as expected. Anyone else have any suggestions?

The DX80 does not support Audio input on the HDMI connector. There is a feature request logged to have this added in the future - see https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCuq01662.
Wayne
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