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PulseAudio - Official Kodi Wiki
https://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=PulseAudio
PulseAudio allows normal video & audio playback in XBMC while at the same time allowing the user to get audio in their browser or other applications. It also allows Kodi playback of video or audio to be paused in order to run a game, Skype or similar. Kodi is set to only use PulseAudio if you have installed it and running. Contents 1 History
PulseAudio and XBMC for linux | News | Kodi
https://kodi.tv/article/pulseaudio-and-xbmc-linux/
And the only way of making XBMC run like it should on Ubuntu was to kill PulseAudio, this is ok if you are only using the computer as a HTPC but will quickly take away the fun of having XBMC just as a media player along with the rest of the desktop, as without PulseAudio most of the other applications won´t work properly.
Audio unavailable with xbmc.service and pulseaudio [kinda ...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185521
So you probably would have to find out the point in time where pulseaudio is ready with its initialization/grabbing of devices. The service file calls xbmc-standalone, so it has no influence on state of pulseaudio, unless you would split the pulseaudio part to another service, but I doubt it would be worth the effort, although much more elegant.
PulseAudio Sink - Kodi
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=183436
PulseAudio does not support DTS-HD, TrueHD. If you need those codecs, stop pulseaudio prior to starting xbmc. Every other combination that might have worked for your _before_ was pure luck. FAQ: When would I want Pulseaudio: - You use your xbmc computer mainly as your Desktop when you don't run xbmc
mls-software.com
http://www.mls-software.com/xbmc.html
If you do, the settings in XBMC have to change accordingly (HDMI = hdmi, S/PDIF = iec958) Apparently PulseAudio and ALSA drivers conflict - which will lead to NO sound in XBMC; Start by removing PulseAudio sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio; Now purge all remaining PulseAudio files from the system
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