The pulseaudio part of this bug has been fixed in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" thanks to the update to pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu1.
Currently, the only client to support passthrough output is the GStreamer PulseAudio plugin. This will be available in the next release (0.10.31) of gst-plugins-good. Once this is installed, you should be able to have passthrough output just work with Totem and most other players that use playbin2.
The pulseaudio part of this bug has been fixed in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" thanks to the update to pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu1.
Currently, the only client to support passthrough output is the GStreamer PulseAudio plugin. This will be available in the next release (0.10.31) of gst-plugins-good. Once this is installed, you should be able to have passthrough output just work with Totem and most other players that use playbin2.
See http:// pulseaudio. org/wiki/ Passthrough for more info on passthrough configuration.