[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #199 from Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius at gmail.com>  2010-02-12 17:53:13 ---
> > What is the point of having:
> > WINE->PULSE->ALSA
> > instead of
> > WINE->ALSA->PULSE->ALSA
> > ?
> 
> I counter with the same logic:
> What's the point of having WINE->PULSE->ALSA instead of WINE->ALSA? Remove
> pulse from the equation (and use dmix where required) and you have a better
> working solution.

Might be, but PulseAudio is preconfigured in a majority of distributions and
dmix is not. And dmix is not a better solution, because you can not easily
adjust relative sound level from multiple programs with dmix. And you can not
move a program to another sound card without restarting the program or stopping
playback. Which in turn makes it nearly impossible easily configure dmix to
support dynamically plugged in USB headsets for an average user. And such
headsets are very popular now to reduce the interference noise from the
built-in soundcards.

> > It's pretty clear to me, one less redirection and functions call etc etc...
> > Again, clearly WINE->ALSA could be better, but as seen as PULSE is basically
> > the de-facto standard (and now -gasp- works) why not support it?
> 
> No, pulse is not a de-facto standard. It's not installed by default by the
> majority of distros.

Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linux Mint, and openSUSE at this point. I believe
that easily makes it a majority by any count. And it has been here for nearly 2
years.

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