I am trying to work on a multimedia tab, unless someone else is doing this already. I am wondering what options should go on this tab. A select for the audio driver, wave mapper, and midi mapper is what I was thinking so far. The wave/midi mapper seem to each only have 1 option so what should I do for that? Is there any plan to add any more options to these two?
The dsound options seem too obscure to be in winecfg, and I didn't see any other obvious options to put on. Hopefully someone else hasn't started on such a tab yet. Any help is appreciated.
On January 16, 2004 12:30 pm, Kirk Ruff wrote:
I am trying to work on a multimedia tab, unless someone else isdoing this already. I am wondering what options should go on this tab. A select for the audio driver, wave mapper, and midi mapper is what I was thinking so far. The wave/midi mapper seem to each only have 1 option so what should I do for that? Is there any plan to add any more options to these two?
AFAIK, we've decided to not have these settings in winecfg. In general, we should be able to autodetect. If someone want additional tweaks, they can always use regedit.
The dsound options seem too obscure to be in winecfg, and I didn'tsee any other obvious options to put on. Hopefully someone else hasn't started on such a tab yet. Any help is appreciated.
Again, these are regedit-only options, no need to clutter winecfg.
On January 16, 2004 09:59 pm, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Again, these are regedit-only options, no need to clutter winecfg.
Of course, I was looking at the wrong part of the file when I wrote that. Here is the list of DSound options we decided to put into winecfg:
[DSound] HardwareAcceleration DefaultPlayback DefaultCapture EmulDriver
Please note that EmulDriver is also settable per app as well, but maybe we can ignore that as a first order approximation. For special apps that need overriding, regedit works just fine.
HardwareAcceleration, DefaultPlayback, and DefaultCapture are somewhere in the registry on 98 up but with different names. See http://www.osr.com/ddk/stream/pcdesign_29if.htm for a description of Hardware Acceleration.
These registry entries are set by mmsys.cpl. I only have access to XP and it's mmsys.cpl doesn't work well in wine. Looking into my XP registry shows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResources\DirectSound\Mixer Defaults holds Acceleration, SRC Quality and Speaker Configuration.
This is with XP with it's WDM driver model and I don't know how 98 handles this with it's VxD driver model. If someone with other than XP can look into this, we might be able to find the proper way to implement this in wine.
What's in wine now is just a quick fix by me to allow hardware acceleration setting and default sound card selection but the proper way should be found in the long run.
It also might turn out that each OS version does this differently and 95 down
might not do this at all so a universal wine way might not be so bad.
"Dimitrie O. Paun" wrote:
On January 16, 2004 09:59 pm, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Again, these are regedit-only options, no need to clutter winecfg.
Of course, I was looking at the wrong part of the file when I wrote that. Here is the list of DSound options we decided to put into winecfg:
[DSound] HardwareAcceleration DefaultPlayback DefaultCapture EmulDriver
Please note that EmulDriver is also settable per app as well, but maybe we can ignore that as a first order approximation. For special apps that need overriding, regedit works just fine.
-- Dimi.
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