[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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Sun Oct 9 03:37:05 CDT 2011


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

--- Comment #331 from Alexey Loukianov <mooroon2 at mail.ru> 2011-10-09 03:37:05 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #330)
> Short question:
> Is PA 1.0 a hard requirement for getting stable sound under wine/alsa/PA combo?

Quick answer: my tests shows that the hard requirement is to have recent enough
alsa-plugins (at least v.1.0.24). Actually there had been a lot of PA-related
fixes to alsa-plugins since 1.0.24 (last one landed to alsa-plugins git 12 days
ago) and tests I tried at home showed great improvements in overall sound
stability under Wine+PA+ALSA in case I build alsa-plugins from current git
HEAD. 

As for PA version - everything around versions 0.9.x seemed to smell like
"public alpha-test of crappy and extremely buggy software". Almost every
version I had tested so far had a lot of bugs, including ones unrelated to
interoperability with Wine (latency issues, incorrect manipulations with
soundcard hw mixer, "rattling", sound distortions, incompatibilities with other
apps, e.t.c.). Latest PA version I had tested so far was 0.9.23 and I can state
that it might be considered "almost bug-free for general use" in case coupled
with latest ALSA and alsa-plugins from current git. Don't know it they had
fixed or broke something in 1.0 release and I personally wouldn't be happy to
have almost untested piece of software to be included in F16 at a last minute.
It'd be better to post in into rawhide or into testing and have volunteers test
it before letting it into public. This discussion is an offtop here so I shut
up :-).

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