Comment 406 for bug 371897

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In , Sorceror (shacklein) wrote :

(In reply to comment #300)
> Unfortunately there's a problem with this "rewrite". It had been announced more
> than a year ago that very soon there would be new super-sexy sound driver
> introduced to Wine based on OpenAL

This is NOT the rewrite being undertaken. The winmm driver architecture is being replaced with mmdevapi.

> P.S. I hope I'm wrong with my view of the situation with the OpenAL backend and
> it would finally find a way into Wine codebase.

It is my understanding that the OpenAL driver is on the backburner until the audio subsystem is restructured.