(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #400) > (In reply to Michael Gooch from comment #399) > > > audio issues on these distros when run in wine, DESPITE the distros > > patching in winepulse support ( > > > > Doesn't that just prove that a winepulse driver is NOT the answer to the > audio problems some users still have?
It certainly proves that having a solution cooked up by the distro package managers isn't a proper solution. However, asking users to disable winepulse and go through considerable configuration to avoid the audio stutter isn't really a solution either, its a hack around a problem that hasn't been solved. It also stands a very good chance of causing issues in non-wine apps if the OS or other apps expect pulse to still be configured according to release-specs and develop accordingly. If the compatibility were wine-native instead of hacked in, theres a chance the wine devs' way of doing it would be far more efficient and better coded for the way wine works as they have a better knowledge of the wine backend than the distro package managers do. Wine should just work, out of the box, without breaking in unexpected ways that force users to dredge the internet looking for configuration options to fix their system around this bug. If this were just a small number of relatively obscure distros i'd understand the thinking, but the major distros have made this switch, and wine now has to make a choice in how they're going to adapt to it. So far, they haven't adapted at all. If you want to try to influence the various distros to dump pulse I'd support that idea, but chances are they're not going to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371897 Title: Occasional sound drops in Wine via PulseAudio Status in Wine: Confirmed Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: wine I'm running the Spotify Windows application on two laptops under Wine with both internal and external USB sound card. With both cards you get the occasional pop and click in the sound suggesting some data loss somewhere. I've selected the alsa drivers in winecfg and the whole thing is running via the alsa compatibility layer in pulseaudio. Jaunty 9.04 UNR and standard Ubuntu desktop. wine: Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status pulseaudio: Installed: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 Candidate: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 Version table: *** 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/371897/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
