Subject: bug#74863: 31.0.50; Problems with play-sound on MS-Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:56:17 +0200

> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:07:39 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Cecilio Pardo <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 14/12/2024 9:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> - Is sound playing synchronous on purpose?
> > 
> > It's synchronous because AFAIK the equivalent features on GNU/Linux
> > play sound synchronously.  We have a policy of not installing features
> > that might put non-free systems at an advantage.  So we can make the
> > sound playing on Windows asynchronous (which is very easily done on
> > Windows) once there is such a capability on free systems.
> 
> Should we add support for PipeWire on GNU/Linux?

I don't know what PipeWire is, so I have no opinion on this.