Re: winealsa: improve sound quality for IDsDriverImpl

[Jerry Jenkins]

Robert Reif wrote:
> Here is the patch that addresses the 8 bit mixer problem.  I just
> cut it out of an old development tree that had a lot of other mixer
> changes so I doubt it will apply cleanly but it will give you an idea
> of the problem.
>
> This patch and the tests developed for it uncovered the locking
> issues which I have not fixed yet.  I hope to submit a real fix for
> all this someday but I hope this partial fix can be of some use
> until then.

Seems there are too few EnterCriticalSections to make things better. Hope
you can complete it soon.

I guess that adding critical sections can synchronize DSOUND, but the
sound driver - playing thread - remains unchanged,  it still goes its own
way:-(.