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Wine Developers Fight Over PulseAudio Driver
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThere should be no competition. There should only be one API. Top layers should be things like SDL, OpenAL, PortAudio, stuff like that. Third-party low-level APIs like PA should not exist. The existence of PA is proof of Linux's failure in audio.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThere's one "hw" device for exclusive access, and there's a dmix device that I guess you can call virtual. The hw device can only be opened by one application at a time. The dmix device can be opened simultaneously.
Per-application volume is not supported well. There's no automation for it, you need to set up everything manually and assign mixer controls to specific applications, which is totally useless. It's one of the things PA chose to replace instead of fix. Well, it was to be expected I guess. Linux devs usually want their own projects instead of joining an existing one. Fame and honor and all that :-/
Someone should look at the PA API, and reimplement the PA API on top of dmix (or extend the ALSA API). If it didn't work out, at least it adds some fuel to the fire that appears to be consuming the issue. Some bridges are better off burnt.
I haven't really been a fan of Miguel de Icaza's work since Rage Against the Machine broke up.
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostI seriously think the NAY SAYERS are on Pentium 3's or the like struggling to keep their system from dying and watching screen page flip.
Modern Linux users want Pulse Audio.
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Originally posted by nightmarex View PostI don't really like the idea of wine having a default I guess.
Pulse >= version X
Alsa
Pulse < version X
OSS
esd
arts
etc
etc
While I may be totally and absolutely wrong about this, the sentiment is that the term "default" may be a bit of a misnomer. The user is free to use winecfg if they have a preference.
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Hmm. The article discusses competing versions of a wine pulseaudio driver. It doesn't discuss whether wine will have a pulse driver (it does) or whether you like pulseaudio. Try to stay on topic (I know that's difficult).
Anyway, here's a link to the correctly threaded version of wine-devel (although no one's responded to Martin's comment yet): http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ead.html#95955
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Originally posted by Serafean View Postpulseaudio : a fix for a problem that didn't exist. (not completely true, but a wrong fix anyhow : fixing something by adding a layer of complexity is plain wrong)
I hate pulseAudio, for me it caused nothing but trouble (HTPC, desktop and laptop). Using pure ALSA hasn't yet let me down. The craziness it allows me to do is everything anyone can ask for (I even used it to stream audio of a movei to a different PC). Yes it takes a day of digging through docs/tutorials, but it IS possible.
Also when using pulse on a relatively good sound system, I got the feeling that it somehow distorted the sound; I'll have to do an analysis at some point...
And don't get me started on digital passthrough.
rant off...
Serafean
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