This is not only irritating but makes it impossible for some users to
fully use HDMI. The part of plugging an HDMI cable, select the TV source
is easy. However, when she gets to the audio part, she gets confused. My
mother cannot understand very well pavucontrol interface, identify which
program is playing the sound and manually selecting HDMI output. And the
worse part is that if she someway get it configured (even not knowing
what she did) and she forgets to configure it back to internal speaker,
the next time she plays the same program with hdmi unplugged, she gets
no sound (as it is routing to HDMI).

I already configured to send the output for both (internal and hdmi) but
it didn't solved my problem. For some reason, the audio from the pc and
the one from the tv are not synchronized. It is that 10ms that makes all
the difference!

When HDMI is plugged, pulseaudio should send all sound to the HDMI (like
default = HDMI) and it should return to the internal one when it gets
unplugged. I didn't see something like this "default output" for
pulseaudio. If desired, an advanced user could route individually each
program to whatever output the user will but this is less than 1% of the
uses. It is like when you plug headset and the internal speaker mutes.

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  Pulse should output sound automatically when HDMI cable is plugged

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