[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #120 from volker.groeschel at sap.com  2009-06-17 04:40:52 ---
Very nice factual words from Stephan.

Wine needs both, evaluate the usage of save ALSA API and a PulseAudio driver.

The problem is that there is nobody who is able to do it, is willing to do it
and has time to do it.

Read through the complete bug an through man posts all over the mailing lists.
It's not only simple Wine users who are rantig, but some Wine devs, too.

Marking bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18740 as a DUPREC and
hijacking this message does not help at all so solve the problem. 

Ranting against PuleAudio is fighting against windmills.

LINUX/Unix sound system will basically consist of the following elements:
 - ALSA/OSS for hardware access
 - PulesAudio for desktop sound server
 - JACK for low latency professional needs

Many issues with PulseAudio are already fixed or they are in work:
 - Coexistence of JACK and PulseAudio is one of the topics e.g. Fedora is
working on. 
 - KDE 4 just learn to use PulseAudio with Phonon
 - many latency issues are actually kernel issues

PulseAudio offers easy access to all kind of sound features for the ordinary
user. They just want to plug in their USB device or BlueTooth device and it
should work. They want to ability to mute it individually etc. More and more
people use network streaming etc. 

Sure, not everybody needs PulesAudio. JACK is needed from even less people, and
people who need JACK usually have the ability to configure their system
according their needs.

But PulseAudio is needed by many users without any detailed computer knowledge
and I'm quite happy that it is preinstalled on many distros nowadays.

Please just leave these two bugs open and help motivating someone to work on
it. Putting both topics in one bug only clutters this one.

Don't rant against much needed progress in LINUX/Unix. And yes, PulseAudio is a
big step in the right direction.

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