[pulseaudio-discuss] Playing audion on TV through HDMI cable with mplayer

[James Board]

>I am quite sure that this would generate a lot

>more support requests than just installing a recent distribution with
>a supported-here version of pulseaudio.

Okay, I'm convinced.  I won't try to run without pulseaudio.

>This would also work. But please try a DVI-to-HDMI cable first, or, if
>your card contains more than one HDMI output, try another one.

But does DVI contain audio?  The wikipedia page on DVI is unclear.
My card has another HDMI output so I will use it.

>3) Load module-alsa-sink in the config (/etc/pulse/default.pa). This
>would allow you to specify arbitrary ALSA devices, including
>hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1, but can cause conflicts with autodetected
>devices.
>
>The correct line is:
>
>load-module module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1

Okay.  Will do.  Thanks again for your help.
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