http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #156 from nh2@deditus.de 2009-10-07 19:39:57 --- (In reply to comment #151)
Average users don't have any problems with the latency of a good configured pulse audio.
Except when using Wine, Skype etc. Hence the issue. And given that dmix does not suffer from these same latency issues, it's obviously a problem with pulse. Face it, pulse is virtually broken by design, and was adopted far too early by distros like *buntu and Fedora.
Of course. It's important to have low latency on these audio streams I can't hear since my card is blocked by another application.
Wine can't support a broken distro. If it's really so difficult to disable pulseaudio, it's not Wine's fault but the distro's.
Again: If I disable software mixing by pulse, I cannot use a voice application and watch a video simultaneously.
About the whole latency issue: Who cares? There is a checkbox to choose another audio backend whenever you want; each winecfg user is capable of using ALSA or JACK if latency disturbs him.