Pulse Audio -- Wine should have instructions on this web site

[Austin English]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Bryan Haskins <ryuzaki90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm more interested in a direct pulseaudio gateway for Wine... since by
> application sound control is the biggest thing here for most people.... wine
> is treated as one big audio blob. Pulse sees it as one thing. In effect,
> wine handles it's own audio (by talking with ALSA or OSS) then passes that
> through to the outside sound server... which in most cases would simply be
> ALSA or OSS itself, but in this case it gets passed to ALSA/OSS and through
> this talks to pulse. I call that pretty messy when we could just directly
> talk to pulse audio (easily, too) and have by applications control. Pulse is
> going to be in pretty much every distro soon. For a 1.0 release, no one
> wants to go out of their way to accomodate the shortcomings of our audio
> control.
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>  Even directly sending the blobof output to pulse directly at first would
> simplify things. I know this means yet asnother audio output method to
> maintain, and for various reasons many are against it. But this is similar
> to us needing to improve ALSA support rather recently. Pulseaudio does
> directly support ALSA, but it's a bit demanding on how it need to work to be
> perfect.
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>  ALSA, Pulseaudio, and OSS are probably the big three we need support for.
> Pulse is a drop in replacement for things like Network Sound, and way easier
> to configure and use.
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>  Sorry for expanding the topic so much.
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> On 4/2/08, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > This site purports to give instructions on how to run certain
> applications, including Skype (which is 32-bit). I think wine should have
> instructions here too.
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> > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
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> > It doesn't look like pulseaudio is going away from Ubuntu anytime soon.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/198453
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This has been brought up before, and it's quite a bit of work. You
can't just simply forward everything to pulse call it a day, you'd
need to implement a full structure/drivers/etc., which would require
quite a bit of time/work and is likely outside of the scope of 1.0.