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 susancragin@earthlink.net 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