[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #219 from Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com>  2010-02-13 17:39:12 ---
(In reply to comment #218)
> (In reply to comment #217)
> > And I'm still waiting on an answer to how MIDI is handled.
> counterquestion: how many apps in the Top-10 lists (http://appdb.winehq.org/)
> use it? To my knowledge the count is exactly 0 and those are the apps that wine
> is mostly used for. I agree that there are some apps that use the MIDI
> interfaces, but: nobody said that wine-alsa should be removed so people who
> really need midi can still use wine-alsa.

The counter-argument is not valid. MIDI must be handled, and in the correct
cross-platform way suitable for pulse, in order for the driver to be seriously
considered. It's a subset of feature-completeness.

> Also (a little off-toppic now ;)) aren't there software midi synthesizers that
> wine could link against so the audio backend doesn't need to provide MIDI
> playback support? or does that have a bad impact on performance (talking about
> "normal" use cases here, not like FruityLoops with tons of different channels)?

Yes, but the Wine audio driver still needs to support a connection to a
(virtual or real) MIDI device. Otherwise, how will apps be able to talk to the
software MIDI synthesiser?

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