Some HDMI and SPDIF receivers lose the beginning of the audio stream when opening the device. In order to work around this issue, it would be nice if it would be possible to define a per-device delay before starting to mix streams into the audio that is sent to the receiver, that is, PulseAudio should generate a bit of silence first when opening the device. The length of the silence should be user-configurable.
Bug 47387 (also entered by you) looks like an exact duplicate. Marking as such. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47387 ***
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