[pulseaudio-discuss] ask about passthrough support

[Arun Raghavan]

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 16:46 +0800, Lu Guanqun wrote:
[...]
> Sink #0
> 	State: IDLE
> 	Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo
> 	Description: Internal Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)
[...]
> 	Formats:
> 		pcm

Looks like you didn't set the supports formats on the receiver
(instructions are on the Passthrough page on the wiki). You can also do
a pactl set-sink-formats 0 "pcm; dts-iec61937" for now.

-- Arun