Comment 387 for bug 371897
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(Get the code!)
I've been refraining, but here we go with more bug-spam.
(In reply to comment #277)
> In that case, Wine cannot officially provide support for Ubuntu users,
> especially in light of the apparent removal of dsound support from winepulse.
Just wanted to say that that is false. Dsound is supported by the winepulse patch, just not by a faked dsound primary buffer but by emulation in dsound.dll, as it is for every other backend other than wineoss and winealsa.
I originally wrote, currently maintain and provide support for winepulse.drv, an out of tree patch to wine for a winmm.dll "low-level" backend to pulseaudio. Fedora and Gentoo both optionally ship it, and there is a package in AUR for arch with winepulse. For a Ubunutu there are a few community PPA's around.
My read on the state of audio in wine is that winmm.drv (which implements the windows multimedia extensions originally from win16) will cease to be the base which drivers are written for once mmdevapi support in wine is complete. Thus, why bother including new winmm backends when you can patch the ones you have to still work until the next-generation support is finished. Especially backends written by comp-sci undergraduates ;-)