PI-zero and HDMI audio

[paysan18]

I installed MPD on a PI-zero and want to use HDMI as the output.
Therefore I have a HDMI audio splitter connected to HDMI jack.
Running the utility "aplay" and "speaker-test" gives no problem.
So the HW path is ok.

In the mpd.conf I have the following:

audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "HDMI"
device "hw:2"
}

Also tried hw:0 and hw:1

What is the meaning of the number in "hw:2" ?
Or sometimes I see "hw:0,0". A second parameter.
Is this documented somewhere?

Anyway the result is silence.
Please who can help me out?

Regards, Wim

[max]

I have:

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audio_output {
        type            "alsa"
        name            "My ALSA Device"
        device          "hw:0,1"
}

It's "hw:0,1" because "aplay -l" shows:

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 7/7
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0, device 1 ("hw:0,1") is the HDMI output.

Your question had nothing to do with MPD; it was a bare ALSA question.

[paysan18]

Thanks Max, I will try this tomorrow.

Why is the meaning of this line in the /boot/config.txt

Hdmi drive = 2 ?

[max]

My Pi3 doesn't have any HDMI options in /boot/config.txt, and I don't know what this option means. All I can say is that it works without any bootloader configuration.