On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not against inviting Pulseaudio guys. Sure, Pulseaudio was added to distributions way too early and there still are a lot of issues but sound servers like pulseaudio are really the way to go for the future. People want to be able to plug in lets say a usb headset (so another soundcard) when playing a game and expect audio to move over to it or want to see audio move over to their HDTV when they plug it in and that's stuff which requires some form of arbiter at the user side.
Having a good pulseaudio driver (in the new wine audio design) might not be a bad thing.
My understanding is that the new mmdevapi code leverages OpenAL, which theoretically should take care of the pulseaudio issues assuming both sides implement the protocol appropriately.
Roderick