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

[Raymond Yau]

I tried the DVI outputs from the video card, but could not get that to work.
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> However, I added this line to /etc/pulse/default.pa (as you suggested),
> restarted pulseaudio, and it worked:
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>     load-module module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
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> However, I don't know why.  The working mplayer command uses a different
> device number
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>     mplayer FILE.avi -ao alsa:device=hw=1.7
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> Then, I removed the above line from /etc/pulse/default.pa, restarted
> pulseaudio, and it
> still worked.  So. it works, and I'm happy.  But I don't know why.
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post the output of alsa-info.sh and pactl list

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug

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