Comment 339 for bug 371897

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In , Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla) wrote :

(In reply to comment #232)
> > Even better, there are native OpenAL drivers on some platform that talk
> > directly to sound hardware.
> Unfortunately not on linux :-(.
You forgetting that Wine runs on multiple O/S, not just Linux. How many platform does PA runs on?

> winepulse existence would help a lot addressing problems that arises when using
> winealsa on Pulse-enabled systems.
No, it "solves" artificial problems that PA introduced to those systems in the first place.

> That is also a dull reality. Wine works perfectly with native ALSA+dmix or
> native OSS
So what more do you need?

> but there are a lot of issues when using it in conjunction with Pulse.
They are not issues they are bugs in PA. And I've yet to see PA fixing any them.

> > And in the future using OpenAL as the multi-platform standardized backend.
> OpenAL is an offtopic really for this bug
Oh yes, it does. You've being told that instead of adding "yet another dysfunctional sound driver" Wine making a transition to _one_ and _only one_ sound driver. And no it's not a pulseaudio.