how to use OSS4 with new Wine

[lapsio]

Hello. New wine can use only alsa driver, so how can it be used on systems with OSS4? Alsa emulation doesn't work for me in wine.

[cesium]

AFAIK, there's still an OSS driver (though IIRC recent versions require oss4's soundcard.h to build it). Maybe your distro doesn't package it?

[tarik2cyprian]

I am currently using foobar2000 audio player under wine 1.4 in ubuntu studio 12.04. The Foobar audio player outputs sound through the audo driver called wineoss.drv and also with vimixer disabled. My questions is does anyone know or is there a way of finding out if the wineoss.drv is down sampling my 32bit 192000 wav audio files?

[igorzwx]

I am currently using foobar2000 audio player under wine 1.4 in ubuntu studio 12.04. The Foobar audio player outputs sound through the audo driver called wineoss.drv and also with vimixer disabled. My questions is does anyone know or is there a way of finding out if the wineoss.drv is down sampling my 32bit 192000 wav audio files?

You may study the source code of wineoss.drv http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/wineoss.drv/

You may also play that wave with ossplay:

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$ ossplay -vvvv -R 32bit_192kHz.wav

Do you hear the difference?

Foobar may also have a kind of resampler inside...

[cesium]

Well, the attached strace can allow you to see which ioctls with with arguments wine sends (use 'strace -e trace=ioctl ....'), so you can see which rate it chooses.

[tarik2cyprian]

Thanks Cesium for this file and Ingor for the info you provieded.

In response to Ingor I tested the ossplay -vvvv -R 32bit_192kHz.wav in command vs the wineoss.drv sound output and there does seem to be a difference. Yes
their is a resampler in foobar but is is disabled.

In response to Cesium for the attached file you provided can you explain in detail (step by step) on how to use it so I can see what sampling and bitdept output wineoss.drv is using.

Thanks once again

[igorzwx]

can you explain in detail (step by step) on how to use it so I can see what sampling and bitdept output wineoss.drv is using.

See an example here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4035&p=16204#p16154
Notice that strace.x86_64 would not work with x386. You may find both in that thread.

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi ... plications

[tarik2cyprian]

Igore I went to the link and saw the example but I am still lost. Do I run my Foobar2000 application first running an audio file and then open up the
terminal and type ./strac* -e trace=ioctl,open Foobar2000 *.wav -R. I tried this command and did not work.

Just a reminder about my setup; Foobar2000 is being ran through wine1.4 in Ubuntu Studio 12.04 amd64bit.

[igorzwx]

Igore I went to the link and saw the example but I am still lost. Do I run my Foobar2000 application first running an audio file and then open up the
terminal and type ./strac* -e trace=ioctl,open Foobar2000 *.wav -R. I tried this command and did not work.

Just a reminder about my setup; Foobar2000 is being ran through wine1.4 in Ubuntu Studio 12.04 amd64bit.

1. Unzip strace and make it executable.
2. Try to reproduce my experiment.

Then you may try something like this:

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$ ./strac* -e trace=ioctl,open wine <path to Foobar2000 exe>

Then you may play your wave with Foobar2000 and watch the output on terminal.

Note: "./strac*" means that terminal is opened in the folder where "strace.x86_64" is located.