Damjan Jovanovic schreef: > Pulseaudio isn't "yet another sound server", it's a full-blown > replacement for all other sound servers. It mixes sound better than > alsa's dmix, it's a drop-in replacement for ESD, and it works even for > OSS applications using oss2pulse. Some of its interesting features > include per-application volume levels, RTP multicasts, the ability to > embed it within an application instead of running a separate server, > and a Windows port. > > The reason it would be good for wine is because it (optionally) runs > in realtime (SCHED_RR) priority, and is designed for low-latency > playback. Even wine's latest alsa driver continuously stutters under > high CPU load (play back some music with foobar2000, while searching a > large PDF). > That's not the fault of our audio driver, it is because of linux doing bad things with i/o scheduling. For whatever reason as soon as a wine blocks on i/o all other threads get cpu starved. This is not a wine bug, but a linux bug.
I'm not in favor for yet another half supported sound system, I would rather have our own sound systems working better. Can't you just use forwarding from JACK or something? Cheers, Maarten.