I wanted to pass through high def audio to my AVR with Kodi on my HTPC and followed the instructions to disable Pulse Audio by adding autospawn = no to client.conf. Everything works perfectly while watching videos in Kodi just as I wanted.
However when I exit Kodi and try to watch a YouTube video or other sources I do not hear any audio at all. I’m a bit new to Linux so not sure what might be happening and how to potentially fix it. Did the fix I made for Kodi disable sound in other non-Kodi applications (even when Kodi is shut down)?
I am running Kodi 16.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and using an NVidia GT 430 video card and HDMI for video and audio.