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A. Dumas  wrote:
>Pete wrote, on 14-06-2019 23:21:
>> As sometimes I do want audio out via hdmi -- playing a video for instance --
>> it's probably more convenient to stick with omxplayer, as there's really
>> nothing wrong with the job it does.
>
>You can use the amixer command to set it to jack once (and for all), for
>mpg123 with alsa, and use "--adev hdmi" for video's? Short option "-o
>hdmi" works too. Or if output to jack is the exception, make a bash file:

I thought of doing something like that (I use scripts for playing
streams of course) but, as I say, nothing's really broke...
>
>I prefer mpd+mpc, by the way, because it plays streams, playlists and
>libraries. But mpg123 is more convenient for single files occasionally,
>I suppose.
Something else to investigate.

Thanks,

 -- Pete --

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