On 10/7/07, Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > King InuYasha wrote: > > I would like to suggest that eventually Wine would support PulseAudio as > > a sound output natively. I am already aware of Wine supporting ESD, > > which PulseAudio can use, but supporting PulseAudio natively I think > > would be much better. > There are already a couple too many sound drivers in Wine and none of > which are great. Alexandre won't accept yet another sound driver in > Wine. He would like to have one sound driver working perfect (probably > winealsa).
Pulseaudio isn't "yet another sound server", it's a full-blown replacement for all other sound servers. It mixes sound better than alsa's dmix, it's a drop-in replacement for ESD, and it works even for OSS applications using oss2pulse. Some of its interesting features include per-application volume levels, RTP multicasts, the ability to embed it within an application instead of running a separate server, and a Windows port. The reason it would be good for wine is because it (optionally) runs in realtime (SCHED_RR) priority, and is designed for low-latency playback. Even wine's latest alsa driver continuously stutters under high CPU load (play back some music with foobar2000, while searching a large PDF). > bye > michael > -- > Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 > Sr. Network Engineer Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Damjan Jovanovic
