[Bug 10910] New: winealsa and PulseAudio

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10910

Summary: winealsa and PulseAudio
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.51.
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-binary
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

winealsa is unable to work with PulseAudio.

This is my /etc/asound.conf:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

This is registry entries for Alsa configurations:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Alsa Driver]

"AutoScanCards"="N"

"AutoScanDevices"="N"

"DeviceCount"="1"

"DeviceCTL1"="pulse"

"DevicePCM1"="pulse"

"UseDirectHW"="N"

And I get this error in wine log:

err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element

I tracked it in wine source code to file dlls/winealsa.drv/alsa.c

With following comment:

/* Setup and find an element id that exactly matches the characteristic we want
 ** FIXME:  It is probably short sighted to hard code and fixate on PCM
Playback Volume */

Unfortunetly I know to little about Alsa to fix it.

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--- Comment #1 from Adam Klobukowski   2007-12-28 06:37:06 ---
I've created corresponding bug report in PulseAudio Trac:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/198

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--- Comment #2 from john   2008-01-24 04:44:25 ---
i have the same issue. however, it does not look like a wine bug but, rather, a
pulseaudio issue with the alsa plugin. wine already supports alsa. along with
oss. hopefully, pulseaudio will address the issue as i don't see what winehq is
going to do about fixing something they already support and something that
already works. it seems that pulseaudio needs to address the issue.

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--- Comment #3 from Per Øyvind Karlsen   2008-02-15 15:36:20 ---
Created an attachment (id=10796)
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Partial fix

This patch fixes two issues. It makes wine pick 'default' over incorrect
'default:X' for alsa device. It will also use the master channel for the mixer
channel in stead of PCM which isn't present on all cards nor when using
pulseaudio plugin for alsa.

Wave out sound will work under with pulseaudio now, but directsound is
unfortunately still broken due to some other problem which I'm uncertain about
whether it lies in pulseaudio or wine.

The workaround previously posted in this bug entry does not seem to fix
directsound being broken with pulseaudio..

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--- Comment #4 from Per Øyvind Karlsen   2008-02-15 15:41:11 ---
Created an attachment (id=10797)
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Debug output

When trying to play with pulseaudio after applying previous patch directsound
still won't work. The program will still work, but it just won't be able to
play sound without much happening.

Here's the debug output..

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--- Comment #5 from Per Øyvind Karlsen   2008-02-15 16:15:54 ---
Created an attachment (id=10800)
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output from winmm_test

Here's output from running 'WINEDEBUG=+wave,+tid,+dsalsa WINETEST_INTERACTIVE=1
wine winmm_test wave'

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--- Comment #6 from Per Øyvind Karlsen   2008-02-15 16:42:37 ---
Created an attachment (id=10801)
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winmm_test wave only for test that fails

This is the output from using 'WINEDEBUG=+wave WINETEST_INTERACTIVE=1 wine
winmm_test wave' using pulseaudio with only the relevant parts.

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--- Comment #7 from Per Øyvind Karlsen   2008-02-15 16:44:05 ---
Created an attachment (id=10802)
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same test passing using alsa without pulseaudio

This is the output from using 'WINEDEBUG=+wave WINETEST_INTERACTIVE=1 wine
winmm_test wave' using alsa with only the relevant parts.

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--- Comment #8 from Tomas Carnecky   2008-02-20 20:11:55 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Created an attachment (id=10801)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10801) [details]
> winmm_test wave only for test that fails
>
> This is the output from using 'WINEDEBUG=+wave WINETEST_INTERACTIVE=1 wine
> winmm_test wave' using pulseaudio with only the relevant parts.

This can hopefully be fixed in the alsa pulse plugin, see
http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/198#comment:8

Using PA adds quite a bit delay. I didn't see that delay in other applications
(mplayer, mpd). I decreased the winealsa buffer size and it helped a bit, but
there's still a noticeable delay.

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--- Comment #9 from Adam Klobukowski   2008-03-01 16:07:16 ---
Using patch attached here makes wine hang form me (when running Steam).

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--- Comment #10 from Roderick Colenbrander   2008-05-03 06:36:20 ---
*** Bug 12932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #11 from Martin Jürgens   2008-05-31 10:19:42 ---
Hm. Any news on DirectSound?

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--- Comment #12 from Dan Kegel   2008-06-10 09:41:28 ---
Could you try Maarten's patches,
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055701.html
and
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055708.html
?

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--- Comment #13 from Adam Klobukowski   2008-06-10 11:18:56 ---
I've tried this patches, and I have nice sound :)

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--- Comment #14 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-10 16:00:16 ---
Fedora 9 RPMs are currently being built here in order to reach a wider testing
audience: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=656457

Will try them then, too because building it with my CPU consumes too much time
:)

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--- Comment #15 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-10 16:21:02 ---
I hope that I did not do any mistake like wrongly patching or installing the
wrong RPMs, but it does not work for me. I have tried it with Rayman 3 and some
flash game, super chick sisters, and with both, I still have no sound when
using PA..

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--- Comment #16 from Dan Kegel   2008-06-10 16:25:11 ---
Does the downloadable trial for Rayman 3 reproduce the problem?
http://www.gamershell.com/download_1164.shtml

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--- Comment #17 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-10 16:50:37 ---
I don't have time to test it this evening. Sorry, later!

What I noticed, though, is that Rayman and other games play sound even when
PulseAudio is running. (I do not know what the behavior was before, I think
that it didn't do anything).

When I listen to music using Rhythmbox and then start a game though, sound is
not working. Another thing I found weird is that Wine or the game is not
displayed in pavucontrol as a sink, which could be related.

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--- Comment #18 from Adam Klobukowski   2008-06-11 00:30:31 ---
I've tried trial version of Rayman 3, and I have sound.

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--- Comment #19 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-11 01:28:01 ---
Does it work when having PulseAudio running and listening to music for you?

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--- Comment #20 from Adam Klobukowski   2008-06-11 03:44:27 ---
Yes, I hear sound in my speakers, and I can see stream in PA monitor. I can
play movie using native Totem and I hear mixed sound from 2 sources (Rayman
under Wine and native Totem). So, it works for me.

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--- Comment #21 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-11 07:33:56 ---
Had output device set to OSS :( Now it works fine with Alsa, though. Would be
nice to have it in 1.0!!

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--- Comment #22 from saul   2008-06-24 18:45:29 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Could you try Maarten's patches,
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055701.html
> and
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055708.html
> ?

Marteen's patches worked for me as well. I applied it to Ubuntu's wine source
and it worked perfectly.

I hope it's included in the next release!

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--- Comment #23 from saul   2008-06-24 18:46:14 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Could you try Maarten's patches,
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055701.html
> and
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/055708.html
> ?

Marteen's patches worked for me as well. I applied it to Ubuntu's wine source
and it worked perfectly.

I hope it's included in the next release!

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--- Comment #24 from Martin Jürgens   2008-06-29 17:55:42 ---
Please consider this for the next milestone. The patches are already included
in the official Fedora RPMs. Thanks!

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--- Comment #25 from Alexey Borzenkov   2008-07-08 17:14:37 ---
I have Ubuntu 8.04 with alsa-plugins 1.0.16-1ubuntu1, wine 1.1 (from winehq)
and alsa redirected to pulseaudio. It seems to work in winecfg and mplayer -ao
alsa, however it doesn't work with EVE Online. Running with
WINDEBUG=+wave,+dsalsa revealed the following:

trace:dsalsa:wodDsCreate driver created
warn:dsalsa:wodDsCreate MMAP not supported for this device, falling back to
waveout, should be harmless

It's interesting that sometimes, after playing for a little and opening
menus/quitting parts of phrases come thru (like Con in Connecting), always a
very small fragment at a time. Looks like the audio is buffered somewhere and
is not playing. How do I figure what triggers short playbacks?

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--- Comment #26 from Martin Jürgens   2008-07-08 19:17:37 ---
Did you try Maarten's patches? They're supposed to fix this, as mentioned
above.

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--- Comment #27 from Alexey Borzenkov   2008-07-09 14:27:20 ---
Seems like I wasn't applying patches the first time (someone made
debian/patches directory that is unused and misleading). After properly
applying Maarten's and Thomas' patches I still don't have audio in EVE Online
though. :-/ What could be the issue here?

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--- Comment #28 from Martin Jürgens   2008-07-09 14:29:45 ---
Does sound work with this game:
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/superchicksisters/superChickSisters.zip ?

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--- Comment #29 from Alexey Borzenkov   2008-07-09 16:43:59 ---
I don't get it. :-/ I've added patch in comment #3 (didn't notice it before),
I've added the Alsa Driver settings in the registry, I have said settings in
~/.asoundrc, I even downgraded to the stock ubuntu
alsa-driver/alsa-lib/alsa-plugins. Still no sound, in Super Chick Sisters too.
How do you manage to make it work? What am I missing?

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--- Comment #30 from Martin Jürgens   2008-07-09 16:59:12 ---
Super Chick Sisters should work with the patch, at least it does to me.

Well I have pulseaudio running, output device set to ALSA and use the Fedora
RPMs which include the pulseaudio patches already..

Are you really sure that you have applied the patch correctly? Do the error
messages change when using the patched wine and the wine which is not patched?

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--- Comment #31 from Alexey Borzenkov   2008-07-10 03:01:54 ---
Ok, I found what was going on. Maarten's patches should not have been applied
(reading comments I assumed they were the ones supposed to fix wine), only a
patch from Tomas
(http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-February/050561.html, which
is the one applied in Fedora), plus a patch from comment #9 (which fixes
"ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element").

So the mistery solved. Just don't apply Maarten's patch.

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--- Comment #32 from Alexey Borzenkov   2008-07-10 03:03:58 ---
Ouch, LOL, it's the other way around! x_x I thought that Tomas's patch was
Maarten's! So it's correct, Maarten's patches are the ones that work. :)

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--- Comment #33 from saul   2008-07-13 15:48:13 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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--- Comment #34 from Martin Jürgens   2008-07-13 16:17:30 ---
Can't anyone commit it? It fixes the problem for many people, some distros are
already shipping it..

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--- Comment #35 from Martin Jürgens   2008-07-16 17:44:45 ---
Some information by Maarten about the patches:

They break alsa in some cases, the real problem is in pulseaudio's
alsa wrapper plugin somewhere, it won't start playback as soon as data
is queued, the first patch might be correct, but the second patch will
increase latency in directsound by 40 ms which is an awful lot.

I've sort of looked into the pulseaudio alsa plugin, but couldn't
quickly find the real problem there, I might try again later.

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--- Comment #36 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-07-27 11:20:45 ---
*** Bug 14654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #37 from [e-mail]  2008-08-08 20:17:20 ---
The problem:
The Wine-team says the problem lies in PulseAudio.
The PulseAudio-team says the problem lies in Wine.

The solution:
The 2 teams should sit together and discuss the problem. Moving the problem
from one team to the other one is the _WRONG_ way.

Wine should correct its ALSA-plugin and PA should implement hardware
acceleration (or emulation?).

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--- Comment #38 from Martin Jürgens   2008-08-10 12:11:31 ---
The PA have to know what exactly is the problem and Maarten isn't sure where it
is lying..

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--- Comment #39 from Adam Klobukowski   2008-08-24 13:19:10 ---
With vanilla Wine 1.1.3 the situation is better but not perfect, there is sound
with cracks from time to time and total silence after some time. When did &>
/dev/null, the silence was much sooner (after few seconds opposed to few
minutes), so it might be some timing or synchronization problem.

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--- Comment #40 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-10-26 11:27:01 ---
*** Bug 14434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #41 from Austin English   2009-04-26 20:40:26 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.20 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #42 from promeneur   2009-04-27 03:24:53 ---
Mandriva 2008.1
wine 1.1.19

no more pb

now there is pulseaudio driver selected by default instead of alsa driver

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--- Comment #43 from promeneur   2009-04-27 03:27:03 ---
Mandriva 2008.1
wine 1.1.19

no more pb

now there is a pulseaudio driver selected by default instead of the alsa driver

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--- Comment #44 from Dan Kegel   2010-03-19 12:06:54 ---
We should probably close this bug, since wine mostly works
with pulseaudio, and maybe open a new one for the remaining problems.

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--- Comment #45 from Raymond   2010-04-08 22:03:54 ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> The PA have to know what exactly is the problem and Maarten isn't sure where it
> is lying..

Refer to the post by the author of winepulse

http://old.nabble.com/Wine-PulseAudio-Driver-tt19701227.html#a19778396
> > My problem is that WaveIn  / WaveOut devices are supposed to be able to

support multiple streams if the hardware allows it, however it is
impossible to support this currently as all MDRV_Message gives us is the
device id the message is for (the only arguments to a WODM_PAUSE is the
device id for instance.) This makes multiple streams impossible and
therefor waveout drivers only support one stream per device. wineesd.drv
gets around this by staticly making 10 waveout and 10 wavein devices,
all effectively the same.

The current problem of winealsa.drv is not support multiple streams ( minimum
16 voices for dsound ) , this is also true for the current implementation of
winepulse.drv too since pulseaudio only support per application volume control
but those dsound program need 16 voices

the best performance path should be wine implement 16 dsound voices for those
hardware mixing sound card with per voice volume controls ( the full hardware
acclearation mean the hardware can perform pitching for the doppler effect and
use DSP to provide hardware attenuation/gain the digital audio signal for the
left/right channel (panning)

most of the so called hardware mixing sound cards support hardware wavetable
synth since they all support at least 16 midi voices

any path involve software mixing cannot be regarded as the optimal path

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--- Comment #46 from Raymond  2010-12-24 19:09:21 CST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=10796)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10796) [details]
> Partial fix
>
> This patch fixes two issues. It makes wine pick 'default' over incorrect
> 'default:X' for alsa device. It will also use the master channel for the mixer
> channel in stead of PCM which isn't present on all cards nor when using
> pulseaudio plugin for alsa.
>
> Wave out sound will work under with pulseaudio now, but directsound is
> unfortunately still broken due to some other problem which I'm uncertain about
> whether it lies in pulseaudio or wine.
>
> The workaround previously posted in this bug entry does not seem to fix
> directsound being broken with pulseaudio..
> > ** FIXME:  It is probably short sighted to hard code and fixate on PCM Playback Volume */
> >    snd_ctl_elem_id_set_name(elemidp, "PCM Playback Volume");

The comment is wrong , since waveout device is only control PCM output in the
sound card and there are other inputs to the Master Mixer such as "Line Play
Volume" for "Line In" Blue jack, "Mic Playback Volume" for "Mic" pink jack, "CD
Playback Volume" for CD , "Synth Playback Volume" for the WaveTable Synth

The bug is alsa-pulse plugin only provide "Master Playback volume
control/switche" instead of the volume control of the audio stream

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[Bug 10910] winealsa and PulseAudio

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10910

Alexey Loukianov  changed:

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--- Comment #47 from Alexey Loukianov  2011-10-09 03:45:58 CDT ---
Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't this bug be finally closed fixed? I've
got sound working reasonably well under Wine/PA/ALSA combo in case I use
alsa-plugins build from latest git, PA 0.9.23 and Wine 1.3.29+.

[Bug 10910] winealsa and PulseAudio

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10910

Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #48 from Rosanne DiMesio  2011-10-14 07:54:09 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #47)
> Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't this bug be finally closed fixed? I've
> got sound working reasonably well under Wine/PA/ALSA combo in case I use
> alsa-plugins build from latest git, PA 0.9.23 and Wine 1.3.29+.

Or invalid, since many of the comments in this bug indicate the problem was in
PA and/or alsa-plugins, not Wine.

Either way, I agree it's time to close this. Wine's audio system has been
rewritten, so any specific problems that exist in current Wine are by
definition different bugs.

Marking fixed.

[Bug 10910] winealsa and PulseAudio

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10910

Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #49 from Alexandre Julliard  2011-10-21 13:49:22 CDT ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.3.31.