SDL would work great, if wine was an emulator. I can't see how adding in another layer of abstraction would help. From what I understand the SDL portion(backend selection) is implemented as built-in dlls.
Switching to SDL now causes problems with current configuration. This bug is open because a single backend for every app was never going to work. Currently I've apps that need the PA driver and apps that need alsa to PA and apps that need alsa with no PA. It's true that all apps would likely work without PA, but as my system uses SPDIF i'm dependent on PA for software mixing.... and for the last time dmix and SPDIF are mutually exclusive as dmix requires parts of a DAC that exist only on the other end of the optical cable(if they exist at all). No one backend is closer to being a good fit than any of the others. For all use cases having a good selection of backends is essential. If you can time travel a working wine version from the future that would be nice, but until you can offer a "does work in all cases", wine is broken for some cases and won't be fixed... By patching the alsa backend to support PA. Though a patch for a native PA backend does exist and this solution is available for more than a few years, instead of a few years from now. -- 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
