SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

[Segin]

James Hawkins wrote:

>On 4/21/06, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems
>>which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer
>>underruns and high latencies in games.
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>>For a part the problem is caused by crappy audio drivers and soundcards.
>>None the less are there things in wine which can be improved to reduce the
>>issues. I don't know this part of the code well but I believe the alsa
>>driver is far from optimal and second the dsound contains some bugs too.
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>>In this SoC project a student would need to look into the causes of wine's
>>bad sound quality and try to improve it by fixing winealsa and other parts.
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>The only problem I have with this project idea is the ambiguity of
>'improve dsound/winmm'.  At what point is dsound and winmm considered
>to be improved?  It would be nice to see a list of specific items that
>need to be fixed, and I mean more specific than crackling playback and
>high latencies.  A specific project that would probably help with this
>situation is to combine all wine audio drivers into one driver,
>wineaudio.  The common functionality of the drivers can be factored
>out, reducing code size while at the same time minimizing the chance
>for more bugs.
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>James Hawkins
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I have a suggestion for a clearer definition: Get Super Collapse 2 to 
work in Wine without audio artifacts or a mile of dsound err code dumped 
to the console.

Console output:
segin at segin ~/.wine/c/Program Files/GameHouse/Collapse II $ wine relapse
This sound card's driver does not support direct access
The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x7fd8f6e8
[*cut for breverity, it's all repetitive*]
segin at segin ~/.wine/c/Program Files/GameHouse/Collapse II $

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