[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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


Fábio Capela <fabio.capela at yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #250 from Fábio Capela <fabio.capela at yahoo.com>  2010-02-17 12:42:07 ---
My point of view is quite simple: I want wine to work with audio without
resorting to uninstalling (or even suspending) PulseAudio. I don't care how
it's done, if it's by integrating the Pulse driver, by improving either the
Alsa or OSS driver so using them in a Pulse-enabled system is as good as using
Art Taylor's patch, or by doing an OpenAL driver; I just care that an answer is
found, it's done sooner rather than later, and the user experience is at least
as good as using Art Taylor's patch.

Last time I tested, the application I use (World of Warcraft) had non-usable
audio with both Alsa and OSS drivers. The only way I could get it to work
correctly without Art Taylor's patch was by killing Pulse, which I don't think
it's an acceptable solution, as I then lose all audio from the rest of my
system.
(I can't test it right now as I'm still recovering from a HD crash, but my last
test was 1 or 2 months ago, I don't believe much changed since then).

As an user I would be willing to do small system-wide tweaks (as long as they
don't break anything else), or large wine-specific tweaks (which is similar to
what I'm doing, by currently maintaining my own tree with patches to three
different bugs the developers seem not willing to either acknowledge or fix),
but large system-wide changes (like changing the whole sound sub-system and
dealing with all configuration changes needed) are well beyond what should be
expected of a user. Besides, I do like the extra features Pulse brings, such as
per application volume control.

Every other non-abandoned, sound-using application I've ever used works either
out of the box or with the padsp utility; wine is the only application I
currently can't get to play well with Pulse without resorting to a patch.

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