[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #106 from Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com>  2009-06-16 21:42:09 ---
(In reply to comment #105)
> > Pulseaudio is a return to the ancient, pre-dmix-by-default architecture of
> > driver + daemon (that produced the now dead esd and arts daemons) to provide
> > software mixing to cards that don't have hardware mixing. It SHOULD have been a
> > drop-in replacement for dmix, but it's far from it.
> 
> Pulseaudio is far superior to dmix from the end-user functionality

Not for Wine (currently), nor is that an issue relating to this bug. It's not
developer-friendly. Your discussion of end-user features is irrelevant to this
discussion. It is still a sound daemon, with all the limitations thereof (e.g.
no hardware mixing), and plug pulse still SHOULD have been a drop-in
replacement for dmix.

> I was a sceptic of PA seeing it as just another ESD replacements, but the fact
> is PulseAudio is much more - it has finally brought real and usable control
> over the sound in Linux systems. All other options that we currently have in
> Linux do not even come close.

So fix it. Write a per-stream volume control plugin for ALSA/dmix or JACK.

> JACK is only needed for sound editing, where you must have guaranteed real-time
> latency (which Wine does not provide anyway)

Wine's support for latency is not the real issue here, nor are you correct
about JACK *only* being needed for sound editing, but that's all off-topic
here.

> and it is possible that FPS
> players could benefit by disabling PA and using ALSA directly to gain a few
> miliseconds in audio latency. However for the rest of Wine users PulseAudio is
> the ultimate option in usability.

Not when it doesn't work. And "a few milliseconds" is much more significant
than you may think, especially when it's adding to already existing latency
issues (which is the current problem with winealsa and plug pulse).

Regardless, you're not adding much (if anything) to this discussion ... Which
option are you voting for, the "winepulse driver" option or the "fix winealsa"
option?

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