[pkg-wine-party] Bug#697686: libwine-alsa-unstable: ALSA Audio playback in WINE locks up ALSA capture

[Torsten Crass]

Package: libwine-alsa-unstable
Version: 1.5.6-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

when trying to record sound (e.g. using arecord) played by some 
application running on WINE (e.g. vlc.exe) via ALSA, and if the 
recording application is launched *before* the playback application, 
recording stops immediately when playback starts, and after a while ALSA 
reports an "Input/output error". This does not happen with native 
playback applications, e.g. the Linux version of vlc.

Funny enough, if recordings starts *after* playback has begun, 
everything works fine.

How to reporduce:

1. In a terminal, issue

   sudo alsactl restore; arecord -D default -f dat -v -V stereo test.wav

2. In another terminal, launch vlc.exe by issuing something like

   WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix wine /path/to/vlc.exe /path/to/some/audiofile

3. Wait for a few seconds... and see arecord complaining:

   arecord: pcm_read:1801: read error: Input/output error

4. Re-launch arecrod:

   sudo alsactl restore; arecord -D default -f dat -v -V stereo test.wav

5. Watch arecord recording happily ever after.


I initially suspected WINE to somehow force access to my soundcard's 
capture device (A SB Live, which seems not to be dsnoop'd by default), 
but after creating a dsnoop'd device (which did allow for multiple 
simultaneous recordings with arecord when playing back audio with 
Linux's vlc) and teaching WINE to actually use it, the problem 
unfortunately remained.

Best regards --

	Torsten



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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libwine-alsa-unstable depends on:
ii  libasound2        1.0.25-4
ii  libc6             2.13-38
ii  libwine-unstable  1.5.6-2

libwine-alsa-unstable recommends no packages.

libwine-alsa-unstable suggests no packages.

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