Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2008 01:50:09 schrieb Tomas Carnecky: >> I switched my desktop to PA yesterday, got most apps working, and to my >> surprise even flash (netscape 32bit plugin in a 64bit browser). All apps >> that I need use PA natively, only Wine doesn't have a PA sound driver. > The point was and is that we don't want yet another half working sound > backend > in Wine. We will have to maintain the Alsa one because there are things PA > won't be able to give us by design, like HW mixing and lowest-latency direct > access which is needed for gaming.
HW mixing is overrated :) Current CPUs can do the mixing just as well, if not with a even better quality. I don't say it's useless as I'm sure professionals have a good reason to use high-end cards with high-quality mixers (but they should use wineasio or winejack anyway). Also, PA ideally only adds less then 1ms of latency, that's hardly an issue, even in gaming. Mind you, I don't say winealsa should go away, I'm just saying PA isn't as bad as it looks. > Of course, as you said, if someone has patches and intends to maintain it > we're happy to accept it. But I think none of the current Wine sound > developers(aka Maarten) has any intentions to spend time on a PA backend. Wineasio is maintained as an external component, so I guess winepulse could be too. There are enough free git repo providers around. tom
