[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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Sun Oct 2 13:14:40 CDT 2011


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

--- Comment #329 from Alexey Loukianov <mooroon2 at mail.ru> 2011-10-02 13:14:40 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #327)
> does mean that those stuck on other Ubuntu versions (or non-Ubuntu distros
> using older PulseAudio versions) may still have issues...

Truth is that those stuck on older version of buggy software would continue to
hit those old bugs in that software. For example multichannel speakers
configuration is a total mess under 10.04 LTS PulseAudio. The only way to fix
it keeping PA installed is to manually build latest dev snapshot of PA - Ubuntu
maintainers seem to have no interest in backporting fixes onto "long term
support" stable version. They are content with the fixed for this bug landed
into latest "regular" Ubuntu version. And so on.

Returning back to Wine, it shouldn't took long for you to look into wine git
logs and conclude that there were some compatibility patches for proper
interaction with PA's alsa-plugin. You should still use the latest PA and
alsa-plugins with a lot of bugfixes though to have mentioned patches work.

Thus, answering to your initial question: there were some PA compatibility
fixes addressed during Wine's sound subsystem rewrite but you should always
stick to  latest versions of all components of "modern linux desktop sound
subsystem" to have most old bug fixed (and new introduced).

P.S. Me personally would prefer to have separate mmdevapi backend for
PulseAudio as it would be more backwards-compatible than sticking with PA's
alsa-plugin emu. Still the final decision is to be made by Wine's devteam.

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