Wine developers on all places seem to say that winepulse is not needed and that alsa plugin works fine. No, it doesn't work properly. I have a problem with crackling sounds since I started to use pulseaudio (since Ubuntu 13.04 to 14.10 currently). And it's not a problem with distributions modifications as you suggest in this note: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16895. Exactly the same I have with non-modified manually compiled version. These modifications only show that problem exists.
Any other native pulseaudio application in my system doesn't have such issues. Also winepulse works properly.
I "fixed" my problem with crackling sounds by using following environment variable:
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60
I don't know if standard latency is higher or not, but it works fine for me. And it doesn't affect whole system, but only single application.
Wine developers on all places seem to say that winepulse is not needed and that alsa plugin works fine. No, it doesn't work properly. I have a problem with crackling sounds since I started to use pulseaudio (since Ubuntu 13.04 to 14.10 currently). And it's not a problem with distributions modifications as you suggest in this note: https:/ /forum. winehq. org/viewtopic. php?f=8& t=16895. Exactly the same I have with non-modified manually compiled version. These modifications only show that problem exists.
Any other native pulseaudio application in my system doesn't have such issues. Also winepulse works properly.
I "fixed" my problem with crackling sounds by using following environment variable: MSEC=60
PULSE_LATENCY_
I don't know if standard latency is higher or not, but it works fine for me. And it doesn't affect whole system, but only single application.