Playing audion on TV through HDMI cable with mplayer

[jpboard2@xxxxxxxxx (James Board)]

I tried the DVI outputs from the video card, but could not get that to work.

However, I added this line to /etc/pulse/default.pa (as you suggested),
restarted pulseaudio, and it worked:
 
    load-module module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
 
However, I don't know why.  The working mplayer command uses a different device number

    mplayer FILE.avi -ao alsa:device=hw=1.7

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.