Sound driver autodetection

[Eric Pouech]

chrismorgan at rcn.com wrote:
> I've been thinking about implementing sound driver autodetection in wine.  On startup wine would try to open a device with each of the drivers until one was opened successfully.  This seems pretty simple to implement, I was wondering if there was a dynamic way of detecting the list of drivers to try or whether this list would have to be hardcoded in a c file.  Eric, any hints?

I don't think this belongs to wine. What we could need is:
1/ an external tool that lists all available drivers
2/ then creates the corrects initialization of the registry. this would 
also include defining the default driver
3/ then all MM DLLs would get their configuration from the registry

of course, 1/ will get complicated with different wine drivers outputing 
to the same physical device, but we could infer some of the rules here
1 & 2 could be implemented as a control panel (for better user 
performance), but also as a pure command line tool so that it can be 
invoked at wine initialisation (at least for 2/)

as a matter of fact, I already have 3/ implemented, but never committed 
it because of the lack of 1&2

A+
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Eric Pouech