I'm running gentoo, so it's not a Raspbian issue

I'm having exactly the same problem with the same outputs for all commands, did you find an answer?

I am aware of this question https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/26170/hdmi-sound-omxplayer-works-but-not-aplay But it does not solve my issue anyway. I can play videos and audio fine with omxplayer over HDMI but alsa does not report any audio device therefore pulseaudio does not have any...

I'm having trouble getting 5.1 sound played natively. My setup is a little unorthodox due to the connectors my receiver takes. I have three ways of reproducing audio/video from the rpi (A Raspberry-Pi 2B running gentoo headless without X) omxplayer via HDMI: The RPI HDMI output connects to a Samsung...

it ended up being a problem with ffmpeg compiled without openssl support, omxplayer suppress all error messages from ffmpeg and finishes quietly so I didn't realize this was the problem for a while.

The situation is the same with -f best, -f mp4 or choosing specifically each format. Unfortunately the video I used for the demonstration no longer exists in youtube, but trying with the following video I have the same problem: $ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3fkN5xE8wg [youtube] W3...

If I download a video from youtube with youtube-dl like this one today: $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUuGiWJH9I And then play the mkv downloaded with $ omxplayer -o hdmi output.mkv Everything works fine. However trying to play the same video with $ omxplayer -o hdmi $(youtube-dl -g ...