On 12/13/2014 02:03 PM, Barry Roberts wrote:
> On my HTPC, I can get vlc and mplayer to play audio over HDMI.  For
> mplayer I have:
> ao=alsa:device=hw=0.3
> 
> in my .mplayer/config and that fixes it.
> 
> But I want to use vidangel.com, so I'm trying to get
> google-chrome-stable playing to HDMI instead the internal speaker.
> 
> I've tried several combinations using the chrome --alsa-output-device
> startup option and the ALSA_CONFIG_PATH environment variable, but I
> haven't had any success.
> 
> This is in a pretty bare openbox environment (no GNOME or KDE, no
> pulseaudio).  Has anybody figured out how to configure chrome to use a
> different audio output device?

In my experience, this is what PulseAudio is for.  And it works pretty
well these days.  You can easily move audio streams to different
devices, including HDMI audio.

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