[Fwd: i810 audio fixes 1/2]

[Mike Hearn]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:33:41 -0500, Robert Reif wrote:
> Longhorn audio system design info is on msdn.

Yeah, but we all know how accurate info on upcoming Windows releases is
from Microsoft. I'd think twice before trusting that....

> Decent hardware will support multiple buffer hardware
> acceleration so multiple applications will get their own
> hardware buffers.  Cheap win sound card hardware will
> not and suffer.  2k and xp encourage cheap hardware which
> is unfortunate but longhorn will take full advantage of well
> designed hardware so hopefully the cheap hardware approach
> will be discouraged in the future.

Well, that doesn't help people with cheap hardware using Wine today.
Possibly this problem is already solved by my previous patch which
basically:

1) Defaults to using the software approach which works with cheap hardware
2) Adds new registry/config keys so if you want maximum performance you
can go back to using "hw" and bypassing alsalib mixing/conversion.

Does that sound like a good approach that suits people using advanced/high
performance audio and also people with cheap hardware or who prefer dmix
over direct access? We can disguise it as a "Enable hardware accelerated
audio" option in winecfg or something, with a message that this requires
direct access to the sound card...