[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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Wed Oct 7 18:15:41 CDT 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495





--- Comment #151 from Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com>  2009-10-07 18:15:40 ---
(In reply to comment #149)
> Sure what a crime from Scott to offer both, the 1.0 and the dev release.

"wine1.2" is a poor choice though. Even "wine-1.2" would be better. Debian has
"wine-unstable" now.

> Average users don't have any problems with the latency of a good configured
> pulse audio.

Except when using Wine, Skype etc. Hence the issue. And given that dmix does
not suffer from these same latency issues, it's obviously a problem with pulse.
Face it, pulse is virtually broken by design, and was adopted far too early by
distros like *buntu and Fedora.

> Professional users who need very low latency need JACK.

Or hardware-accelerated ALSA, which is disabled by pulse.

> To ask 90% of the unexperienced user to deeply manipulate their system to have
> sound work in order to make it easier for a handful "professionals" sounds very
> wise to me.

Wine can't support a broken distro. If it's really so difficult to disable
pulseaudio, it's not Wine's fault but the distro's.

> There exists a dev who is willing and able to deliver a solution but instead of
> a welcome he earns only prejudice.

There have been specific objections to the proposed winepulse *code* (not just
the concept) before and I as far as I know the few people who have worked on it
are no longer attempting to get it accepted upstream. Patches have to be sent
to wine-patches mailing list for review.

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