Comment 428 for bug 371897

OpenAL turned out to be no good for our purposes, so we went back to the model of writing multiple backends in Wine itself. The transition to a mmdevapi-based driver model is mostly complete, if I am not mistaken only dsound needs to be reimplemented on top of mmdevapi - winmm is already done.

Maarten Lankhorst has a mostly working PA driver in his git repo. However it handles only mmdevapi and not dsound, so it's no good until dsound is moved over to mmdevapi as well. Besides I think most people prefer to talk to PA via Alsa. Andrew Eikum is has been working on the annoying bug that caused random sound loss and a bugfix for this problem was committed to the PA and alsa-pulse(part of alsa-plugins) git trees.