Wine sound discussion summary

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
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> Am 06.12.2009 um 15:32 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
>> This audio engine is quite similar to
>> pulseaudio and it offers functionality like per stream volume which
>> normal APIs like oss/alsa/openal don't offer, so these APIs would map
>> better to a sound server than to a standard library.
> I am wondering: Does CoreAudio on OSX offer similar features? Or do we need a sound server there as well if we want to support them?
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> I CC'ed Ken.
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> On the big picture I like the Wine WASAPI proposal. I do however think that we should retain the capability to have multiple backends. Maybe we should go all-in on PulseAudio with its API if that gives us all needed features, and use CoreAudio on OSX if it satisfies our needs without a separate sound server.
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> Stefan
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I just found this document. It is a good summary:
http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=25937 (expand all bullets)

Roderick