[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #2 from Martin Jürgens <martin at gamesplace.info>  2007-11-18 13:13:06 ---
1) Distribution are currently moving over to PulseAudio as default. Fedora 8
already uses it as default sound system, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE plan to do so.
When PulseAudio is being used, you can not use ALSA or OSS directly. There are
compatibility layers for OSS and ALSA being provided by PulseAudio, but they
both increase the latency. The ALSA layer does not work in connection with
Wine.

2) When everything works well, nearly all applications using sound will use
PulseAudio as sound output. Many already have PulseAudio output plugins, namely
Gstreamer, Xine and Mumble. Because of them all using PA, Wine would not have
to maintain great amounts of backends.

3) Proper software mixing. Because of 2, software mixing should work fine using
almost all software then.

4) Better support for Thin Clients as Pulse Audio has great Networking Support.
Many LTSP implentations already using PA.

5) Moving sounds on-the-fly between devices.

This statements are without warranty, but should be true.

Also have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/LennartPoettering


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