----- Original Message -----
> From: Tanu Kaskinen <[email protected]>
> To: John <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Need a way to check when 
> start-pulseaudio-x11 fully initialized
> The XBMC logs talk about "enumerated alsa devices", which sounds very
> much like XBMC is not using pulseaudio to enumerate the devices. Maybe
> it doesn't use pulseaudio for streaming either.
> 
> I suspect that what happens is that when pulseaudio starts, it opens the
> HDMI and analog devices, keeps them open for 5 seconds, and then
> suspends them. Without the extra delay, XBMC can't use the devices while
> pulseaudio has them open, so only the digital output works for XBMC
> (pulseaudio only ever uses either analog or spdif at any given time, not
> both). With the extra delay, pulseaudio has released the devices by the
> time XBMC tries to use them.
> 
> Does XBMC work if you don't start pulseaudio at all?


Yes, it can run using alsa, but I need pulseaudio on the system.
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