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Hi, follow up to my previous thread

So the GUI loads A/V plays but I can only get 2.0 PCM out of my box when the files I'm playing come with DD5.1 and similar.

No passthru seems to work, changing from the default output device rendered my Kodi mute so I had to fix it following the commands documented here:

https://kodi.wiki/view/PulseAudio

But I dont really understand how to set the 'sink' - which I'm guessing is what Im missing - can someone point me in the right direction?

Oh and disabling pulse and going full ALSA was a no go, videos simply won't play.

Here is my cards info:

$ pacmd list-cards
1 card(s) available.
    index: 0
        name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_08.0>
        driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
        owner module: 7
        properties:
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA NVidia"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA NVidia at 0xfae78000 irq 20"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:08.0"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/sound/card0"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.vendor.id = "10de"
                device.vendor.name = "NVIDIA Corporation"
                device.product.id = "0ac0"
                device.product.name = "MCP79 High Definition Audio"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "0"
                device.description = "Built-in Audio"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        profiles:
                input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60, available: no)
                output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000, available: no)
                output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (priority 6060, available: no)
                output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output (priority 5500, available: unknown)
                output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5560, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (priority 5400, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5460, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 300, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 360, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 300, available: unknown)
                output:hdmi-surround71+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 360, available: unknown)
                off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
        active profile: <output:hdmi-stereo>
        sinks:
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_08.0.hdmi-stereo/#0: Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)
        sources:
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_08.0.hdmi-stereo.monitor/#0: Monitor of Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)
        ports:
                analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority 8700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
                analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
                iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
                        properties:

                hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "video-display"

Please read the Wiki: https://kodi.wiki/view/PulseAudio again. Open pavucontrol, set device to stereo, enable ac3.

If you have a real HDMI device setting to 5.1 or 7.1 is enough. Other than that: kodi is just a standard compliant pulse sink and cannot overcome local configuration.