[Wine] Wine esound/esd sound output

[Herman Bos]

Peter Åstrand wrote:
>
>> I was trying the wine esound output plugin but the sound is really
>> choppy. On IRC it was noted that only the OSS output worked properly and
>> that esound implementation was quite crappy.
>>
>> However I really need esound output since we use an LTSP setup. The
>> sound if only available through esd.
>
> Is the sound choppy with many/all applications, or just a few? We have
> been using the esd driver for some time and it usually works fairly
> good for us. It's certainly not perfect, though.
>
> One other alternative is to use the OSS driver with the esddsp
> wrapper. In this case, you'll need to apply an Esound patch that I've
> done that adds support for catching fopen64/open64. It's in the GNOME
> Bugzilla.
>
> The long term solution is to migrate to Polypaudio. There's no Wine PA
> driver yet, as far as I know, but the ALSA driver *might* work with
> the ALSA-PA-plugin that we have recently developed. It allows for
> networked audio using the PA protocol with basically any ALSA
> application.
>
> Regards,
We have no other wine application that produces sound but I could test it.

Is the esddsp wrapper part of esound? I have esd installed I don't seem
to have esddsp available on my system (Ubuntu Dapper).
I found the entry in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312665
It seems they left the patch alone. :-( I hope the patch works against
our esd version without too much trouble.

About polypaudio as far as I know its unmaintained. Besides that it
would probably be quite some work to switch our thinclients of using esd
to polyp.

In any case thanks for you response. I have regained a little hope now
that we might be able to fix it.

Regards,

Herman Bos