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

[James Board]

> >     load-module module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
> So use it with mplayer -ao pulse
 
How?  If I play the file with 'mplayer FILE.avi -ao pulse' then no sound.
 
> >     mplayer FILE.avi -ao alsa:device=hw=1.7
> This tells mplayer to go through ALSA directly.
> Please don't do that, as it will disable pulseaudio from
> accessing the card. Pulseaudio will then redirect all its

But, it's the only thing that works.  How?