[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #576: No way to select HDMI sink except pavucontrol

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#576: No way to select HDMI sink except pavucontrol
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 Reporter:  realh   |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
Milestone:          |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:          |  
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 The only way I can make pulseaudio use my NVidia HDMI audio output is to
 select it as the "Profile" in the Configuration tab of pavucontrol, which
 I have to do every time I restart the server. The HDMI ALSA device is
 hw:0,3. I've put:

 load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3
 set-default-sink

 in /etc/pulse/default.pa but it doesn't make any difference.

 I guessed at 'alsa_output.hw_0_3' because the output of the list command
 includes:

     name: <alsa_output.hw_0_3>

 but 'paplay -d alsa_output.hw_0_3 ...' causes the error "Stream errror: No
 such entity".

 One of the reasons I'm reporting this as a bug is because the
 documentation makes several references to sink and device names, but
 nowhere does it explain how to specify a name. And as they are not
 discoverable either, this makes an essential feature effectively useless,
 which is why I'm reporting it as a bug.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/576>
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