[pulseaudio-discuss] Cannot have iec958:0 and a52:0 simultaneously?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 12:41 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> No, actually hdmi has higher priority than a52, unless you have modified
> the priorities in the configuration file. So, I don't know why the A52
> sink gets loaded for card 2. Maybe the hdmi output doesn't work?

Found the explanation: profiles with the same amount of channels as
what's configured as default get a big priority boost. Since you
probably have configured the default channel count to be 6, a52
overrides the stereo hdmi. Sorry for the spam.

-- 
Tanu Kaskinen