Ubuntu should ship wine with the wine-pulse patches
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wine1.2 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: wine1.2
As Ubuntu wants to push Pulseaudio so hard, it makes sense to ship wine with the option to use Pulseaudio directly.
As it stands, there is a collection of patches which adds another audio-driver: http://
I'm suggesting that Wine be built with these patches applied so that people can choose the Pulseaudio sink if that suits them best.
This has been brought up multiple times with the Wine project directly and they refuse to ship it (for various reasons, some more valid than others). It's based on an older driver so isn't elegant; it hacks around a few things and a few things don't work... But it currently works (for me and others) a lot better than using its ALSA driver.
It shouldn't be the default driver but it should be there so people with Wine audio issues can try it for sweet relief.
I'm applying the patches to this bug but they can (and probably should) be downloaded directly from the art.ified.ca project site as linked above.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 27 18:50:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: wine1.2 1.1.30-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: wine1.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
Changed in wine1.2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: patch |
tags: | added: wishlist |
I totally agree with this request. In my case, I want to run foobar2000 on Karmic; with the default version of Ubuntu, it is only possible with dirty hacks (start all wine programs with padsp and kill all other music players). This patch (there is actually a new configure patch: version 0.32) supports pulseaudio and makes foobar2000 work correctly out of the box and it plays nicely along other music players.
The patch is supported actively by the developer. Furthermore, wine developers don't want to include the patch because pulse audio is wrong by design: http:// bugs.winehq. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=10495. It looks like the developers do not care at all that the audio part of wine is unusable in distributions who ship pulseaudio. However, without this patch, wine is unusable for audio programs.
Thus, I would highly appreciate the inclusion of this patch.