On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Bryan Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm more interested in a direct pulseaudio gateway for Wine... since by > application sound control is the biggest thing here for most people.... wine > is treated as one big audio blob. Pulse sees it as one thing. In effect, > wine handles it's own audio (by talking with ALSA or OSS) then passes that > through to the outside sound server... which in most cases would simply be > ALSA or OSS itself, but in this case it gets passed to ALSA/OSS and through > this talks to pulse. I call that pretty messy when we could just directly > talk to pulse audio (easily, too) and have by applications control. Pulse is > going to be in pretty much every distro soon. For a 1.0 release, no one > wants to go out of their way to accomodate the shortcomings of our audio > control. > > Even directly sending the blobof output to pulse directly at first would > simplify things. I know this means yet asnother audio output method to > maintain, and for various reasons many are against it. But this is similar > to us needing to improve ALSA support rather recently. Pulseaudio does > directly support ALSA, but it's a bit demanding on how it need to work to be > perfect. > > ALSA, Pulseaudio, and OSS are probably the big three we need support for. > Pulse is a drop in replacement for things like Network Sound, and way easier > to configure and use. > > Sorry for expanding the topic so much. > > > > On 4/2/08, Susan Cragin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This site purports to give instructions on how to run certain > applications, including Skype (which is 32-bit). I think wine should have > instructions here too. > > > > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup > > > > It doesn't look like pulseaudio is going away from Ubuntu anytime soon. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/198453 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
This has been brought up before, and it's quite a bit of work. You can't just simply forward everything to pulse call it a day, you'd need to implement a full structure/drivers/etc., which would require quite a bit of time/work and is likely outside of the scope of 1.0.