Wine-Staging 1.7.39 Works On Speeding Up Wineserver Calls

[ihatemichael]

it's not like PA uses alsa and the alsa "install" is more or less just one shared library
not like that at all...

The problem is that Wine is known to cause issues with ALSA and PulseAudio.

It might be better now, and I have nothing against using ALSA applications with PulseAudio.

I'm also well aware that PulseAudio uses ALSA.

Trust me, I've been using Linux for more than 15 years, even from the OSS (before ALSA) days. I know what I'm talking about.

I'm referring to the issues that happen when you are playing a game with ALSA and then you have music playing on the background with a Pulse app and then the device would be "busy". This has happen to me more than once and I've had enough, so I go with apps that have a good pulse driver.

[gens]

it's not like PA uses alsa and the alsa "install" is more or less just one shared library
not like that at all...

[slackner]

Are they ever going to add PulseAudio support to Wine?

I've removed alsa-utils and pulseaudio-alsa from my Arch Linux system, because the only thing I want to use that doesn't have pulseaudio support is Wine.

But I can't install it since I'm forced to use ALSA with Wine if I want sound, so I don't install it.

Sigh.

This news is about Wine-Staging, which already supports PulseAudio since a long time. See our website https://wine-staging.com for a list of all included "extra features". Features which are already available in upstream Wine are also supported of course, but not explicitly listed there.

[kernelOfTruth]

Are they ever going to add PulseAudio support to Wine?

I've removed alsa-utils and pulseaudio-alsa from my Arch Linux system, because the only thing I want to use that doesn't have pulseaudio support is Wine.

But I can't install it since I'm forced to use ALSA with Wine if I want sound, so I don't install it.

Sigh.

You know, there's a patchset which offers pulseaudio support for wine

but the patches apply less and less with each wine release (rejects, so either it's already integrated or WINE is a highly moving target)

[ihatemichael]

Are they ever going to add PulseAudio support to Wine?

I've removed alsa-utils and pulseaudio-alsa from my Arch Linux system, because the only thing I want to use that doesn't have pulseaudio support is Wine.

But I can't install it since I'm forced to use ALSA with Wine if I want sound, so I don't install it.

Sigh.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine-Staging 1.7.39 Works On Speeding Up Wineserver Calls

Following Friday's release of Wine 1.7.39, Wine-Staging 1.7.39 was released this Sunday with hundreds of extra patches on top of Wine...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-Staging-1.7.39