wine users - Dec 2011 - Re: Wine and pulse audio

Using ALSA or OSS instead of PulseAudio is not actual at all. Its si much
problems using ALSA and OSS with duplex sound thru wine and native
linux-apllications.

And problems comes when trying to use things like mumble and playing a game with
wine.

The pulseaudio-patch which was added for Wine versions up to 1.3.28 (not
official i think), has been working just perfect.

I tried 1.3.34 which should be patched, but it can't find the pulsedrivers,
so I need to downgrade back to 1.3.28 with patch.

Even if this is considered "buggy", I would rather have them included
as "experimental" or whatever. I think it's better to include
choices rather than just removing them..

PulseAudio is the only sound server which is working properly in linux, and
which is easy to configure.

I'm using Open Sound System (OSS-v4.2-build2005) on Ubuntu 11.10 without
that PulseAudio thing and it works great. I haven't any problems in Wine or
other applications. I don't know how it would work with Mumble, but it's
capable of handling multiple sound streams.

Vitamin is a Wine developer and as he pointed out there are already lots of
sound drivers. Maintaining another one when there are still unsolved problems
with ALSA and OSS backends is a waste of time and resources.