Laptop up to tv using dmi cables, why is there no picture or sound?

I bought an HDMI to DVI video adapter, cause I alreay had the DMI cable, and I hooked it up to my laptop and all that shows up on my tv screen is my laptops wallpaper. No icons, nothing. I wanted to watch something using VLC (or any other video player) but nothing is happening.
What do I do to make it work? Like specific steps please.
Thanks for the help!

Hi: Glad that it made sense. You are correct the HDMI cable will normally carry an audio signal, unfortunately the DVI cable doesn't. You'll need a separate cable from the Line-Out/Headphone jack on your MacBook Pro to the appropriate jack on your TV.
Enjoy
Stedman

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