Pulse Audio -- Wine should have instructions on this web site

[James Hawkins]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Bryan Haskins <ryuzaki90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I'm more interested in a direct pulseaudio gateway for Wine... since by
>  > application sound control is the biggest thing here for most people.... wine
>  > is treated as one big audio blob. Pulse sees it as one thing. In effect,
>  > wine handles it's own audio (by talking with ALSA or OSS) then passes that
>  > through to the outside sound server... which in most cases would simply be
>  > ALSA or OSS itself, but in this case it gets passed to ALSA/OSS and through
>  > this talks to pulse. I call that pretty messy when we could just directly
>  > talk to pulse audio (easily, too) and have by applications control. Pulse is
>  > going to be in pretty much every distro soon. For a 1.0 release, no one
>  > wants to go out of their way to accomodate the shortcomings of our audio
>  > control.
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>  >  Even directly sending the blobof output to pulse directly at first would
>  > simplify things. I know this means yet asnother audio output method to
>  > maintain, and for various reasons many are against it. But this is similar
>  > to us needing to improve ALSA support rather recently. Pulseaudio does
>  > directly support ALSA, but it's a bit demanding on how it need to work to be
>  > perfect.
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>  >  ALSA, Pulseaudio, and OSS are probably the big three we need support for.
>  > Pulse is a drop in replacement for things like Network Sound, and way easier
>  > to configure and use.
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>  >  Sorry for expanding the topic so much.
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>  > On 4/2/08, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  > > This site purports to give instructions on how to run certain
>  > applications, including Skype (which is 32-bit). I think wine should have
>  > instructions here too.
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>  > > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
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>  > > It doesn't look like pulseaudio is going away from Ubuntu anytime soon.
>  > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/198453
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>  This has been brought up before, and it's quite a bit of work. You
>  can't just simply forward everything to pulse call it a day, you'd
>  need to implement a full structure/drivers/etc., which would require
>  quite a bit of time/work and is likely outside of the scope of 1.0.
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And I believe Julliard rejected the idea of adding a pulseaudio driver.

-- 
James Hawkins