[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495

--- Comment #301 from Ben Klein  2011-01-08 21:11:02 CST ---
(In reply to comment #300)
> Unfortunately there's a problem with this "rewrite". It had been announced more
> than a year ago that very soon there would be new super-sexy sound driver
> introduced to Wine based on OpenAL

This is NOT the rewrite being undertaken. The winmm driver architecture is
being replaced with mmdevapi.
> P.S. I hope I'm wrong with my view of the situation with the OpenAL backend and
> it  would finally find a way into Wine codebase.

It is my understanding that the OpenAL driver is on the backburner until the
audio subsystem is restructured.