[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #135 from Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com>  2009-09-26 21:36:15 ---
(In reply to comment #134)
> Another reason, as has been discussed, is that pulse adds unreasonable latency
> to be used as a general purpose software mixer (as in one that is suitable for
> professional applications).

Dude, that's an argument against PulseAudio in general; not a valid reason for
Wine not to support a native Pulse output (not that there aren't valid
reasons). The fact is that most desktop distributions are shipping PulseAudio
by default, and audio not working is a major paper cut for less technical
users.

> Furthermore, no one has proven that a pulse driver is actually NEEDED. The
> preferred solution is to modify, if possible, winealsa and/or wineoss drivers
> to work nicely with pulse. In this case, a pulse driver would *never* be
> needed.

That said, I am already very happy with Wine's ALSA output. It works
beautifully with Pulse through the Alsa plugin these days. However, timing is
an issue -- lip sync still doesn't work properly with my Bluetooth headset
(which adds a 0.25sec latency), but lip sync is now perfect with native Linux
apps (e.g. GStreamer apps).

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