Chris Robinson, the author of the main OpenAL implementation on Linux (openal-soft) has tried to handle Wine's audio purely with OpenAL, but ran into problems. I don't remember the details, but there are some things OpenAL does not handle, like MIDI.
Please, if you have problems with PulseAudio, post the following info: Which Application are you trying to run, which sound device do you use (lspci or lsusb info), which PulseAudio version you use and the module name of the sound driver (e.g. snd-hda-intel.ko, snd-usb-audio.ko). PA is working fine for me with all Wine apps, *except* on my snd-usb- audio.ko-driven USB dongle. For the USB dongle setting default-fragments = 4 and default-fragment-size-msec in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf fixed the problem. Andrew Eikum says that PA is trying to read 50ms from a 10ms buffer Wine provides (Not sure if I remember the numbers right), which naturally causes trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371897 Title: Occasional sound drops in Wine via PulseAudio Status in Wine: Confirmed Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in wine package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: wine I'm running the Spotify Windows application on two laptops under Wine with both internal and external USB sound card. With both cards you get the occasional pop and click in the sound suggesting some data loss somewhere. I've selected the alsa drivers in winecfg and the whole thing is running via the alsa compatibility layer in pulseaudio. Jaunty 9.04 UNR and standard Ubuntu desktop. wine: Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status pulseaudio: Installed: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 Candidate: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 Version table: *** 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/371897/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
