Tomas Carnecky wrote:
My ultimate goal was to solve the dsound underruns which were so
horrible that I had to disable sound in World of Warcraft. While I
managed to get the sound working flawlessly (really... I never heard
such clear sound under wine) in WoW, it required WoW-specific hacks so
my patch will never make it (in its current form) into the official git
tree, but maybe someone can use some of my ideas to improve
dsound/winealsa.
The basic idea is to let alsa mix the sound instead of the infamous
dsound mixer. The advantage is that if the hardware supports mixing,
there is very little overhead, if not, there's still dmix which can do
that, but dsound doesn't need to care how it's done, it's entirely up to
alsa.
I have place some documentation on the ALSA wiki site:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=ALSAresampler
It tries to explain the constraints that the current ALSA resampler
works under.
You might like to read it as I think it will have impact on your plans.
James
