PulseAudio as a sound output?

[King InuYasha]

On 10/8/07, King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wine must not let go of the OSS support since OSS was recently made GPL'd
> and CDDL'd for use in FOSS kernels by its maker (4Front) and OSS is the
> POSIX audio system of choice for nearly every time except Linux. Linux does
> not use OSS anymore and uses ALSA. Since Linux is the primary target of
> Wine, obviously ALSA needs to be well supported. Since under normal
> conditions ALSA and OSS do horrible mixing and handling of audio (kernel or
> audio module bug, whatever, its still a problem), I'm betting that was why
> the ESD and JACK drivers were made. I am not disputing the JACK driver
> because I recognize that JACK may be necessary for certain tasks.
>
> However, the ESD driver should be replaced with something more up to date.
> I hope that PulseAudio would be that replacement. I don't think I suggested
> removing the baseline stuff (ALSA and OSS). PulseAudio is what I would
> consider to be the middle man between JACK and ALSA/OSS. Mainly because it
> does have some of the upscale features (low-latency, network sound, etc.)
> and some of the commodity features (superior mixing, multiple audio backend
> support like ALSA, OSS, and Win32MM, etc.) I believe this balance would help
> with Wine sound very much.
>
> Certainly the new scheduler in Linux kernel 2.6.23 would improve how the
> kernel/kernel modules handle threading and processing the audio streams, but
> that wouldn't necessarily help with the baser problems (mixing, stream
> locks, etc.) though it does help with stuff like stuttering. I also
> recognize that Alexandre may not want to support so many audio backends. I
> find only three absolutely necessary, and the fourth one is widely clamored
> for. The necessary ones are: JACK, OSS, and PulseAudio. The widely clamored
> one is ALSA. Why? Because ALSA is ENTIRELY Linux specific. Wine is to be a
> Win32 to UNIX translation layer for compiled applications. If too much focus
> on being Linux-specific is given, I believe it will mess up general FOSS
> adoption as a whole.
>
> Just my two cents.... :)
>
> On 10/8/07, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 08 October 2007 14:43:30 Dave Phillips wrote:
> > > Well, first I'd suggest simply supporting ALSA as thoroughly as
> > > necessary or possible. It is the default kernel sound system, Wine
> > > may as well incorporate it as well as it can. Supporting the
> > > deprecated OSS API might be a good idea too, through ALSA's
> > > OSS-compatibility layer. As one devel noted, it may be a good idea to
> > > forego further development of things like the NAS and ESD servers
> > > until a more solid basis exists for ALSA/OSS.
> >
> > I just wanted to add that OSS isn't deprecated. ALSA is Linux-only.
> > OSS is a multiplatform solution.
> >
> >
> >
>
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