Videos on my macbook pro won't play sound after apple tv was installed in the house

Hi! Need some help... for christmas my dad received the little black Apple TV device to watch videos on our big tv from his iPad. After it was installed no sound came from my macbook, it instead comes out of the tv speakers. When dad is airplaying a video from his iPad and I open a video on my mac, the iPad video gets interrupted and the sound from my video comes on without the visual. What's going on?! I see the airplay symbol on the top right bar but it always says disconnected, yet obviously the sound is somehow connected.

that figures, VLC.
Consider getting your dad the APP VLC streamer  for his Ipad, that way he can wifi beam movies etc. to his Ipad from any Mac.
removes putting movies on an Ipad and clogging it up with large movie files.  Very handy

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