[PATCH 1/7] dsound: Remove support for IKsPropertySet for now

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Sat Dec 5 09:04:41 CST 2009


Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmail.com> writes:

> Right now we are a couple of months away for a Wine 1.2 freeze. If
> dsound->openal works well enough it might be a good short-term
> solution but the code should be written in such a way that it would be
> easy to move it to a wasapi backend (I imagine that we will have an
> openal reference backend but next to that other backends like
> CoreAudio).

It doesn't make sense to add a short term solution, the current dsound
is perfectly adequate for 1.2. If we are going to have the
dsound->openal rewrite in 1.2, we need to agree that this is the long
term solution. We can't have a dsound rewrite in 1.2 and another one in
1.3.

I also don't understand your mention of a CoreAudio backend. To me the
reason for going to OpenAL is as an OS abstraction layer, to avoid the
need to have different backends. If we are just moving the current
driver mess over to the win7 model, with an extra OpenAL driver in the
mix, we are only making things worse.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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