Hi all, with http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git and http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git you should be able to get the benefits of openal-soft's mixer while continuing to use whatever driver you want for mmdevapi. As a result directsound will only support openal-soft, but multi channel is suddenly supported, as is support for the floating point format. 24-bits and 32-bits int are currently not, but as soon as that capability is added to openal-soft.git wine will have a nice working dsound implementation with support for a lot of things that are missing now. The resampling code will also be a lot better and you should expect a higher quality when resampling is used. The capture changes should work nicely, and I don't expect a problem with that, since it's based on openal. The rendering code is essentially reviving the old dsound-openal, and outputting it to mmdevapi. Note: 24-bits and 32-bits int are unsupported and will most likely cause a crash, disable the #if 1 in get_fmtstr_EXT to prevent lying about support. It was put in place so the wine dsound tests would pass. A dsound.dll.so binary with openal-soft.git statically linked in can be found at: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~lankhorst/dsound.dll.so If you're using pulseaudio, patch your 32-bits alsa-plugins with the attached patch, or silence may occur when using the new mmdevapi drivers. Cheers, Maarten