ArchLinux + HDMI (pulseaudio)

Question

linux

No one has set up ArchLinux + HDMI sound and video, there are problems with sound, the usual alsa will not help here, you need to use pulseaudio, there are problems with setting it up, no one can help?

Answer 1

Actually, Pulseaudio is a server, and alsa is a sound card driver. ALSA interacts directly with iron. You can play through ALSA without using Pulseaudio, but not vice versa. So it is necessary to configure alsa. The output
of aplay -l
should show hdmi devices, if it does, then you can use it like this
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hdmi FILE.AVI
If not, then the driver did not find the device. Probably needs a kernel upgrade. I have an H55 chipset for it, the required kernel is at least 2.6.35

Answer 2

Are you embarrassed to write the essence of the question?

Answer 3

You have not described the essence, but I will try to teleport.
There is a pavucontrol program. It allows you to change the default output device and many other useful things directly from the graphical interface.