[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio client / audio driver for windows

[Tuomo Pelkonen]

I am interested in porting / keeping the pulseaudio client library up to 
date on windows.

My plan was creating Vistas global Audio Processing Object (APO) that 
communicates to a local sound "server" which in turn acts as pulseaudio 
client and pushes audio to the pulseaudio server. My intention is to 
keep my code open source but the compilation of the APOs and Windows 
drivers need Microsoft Windows Driver Kit which of course is not 
available without proper MSDN license. So participating in this project 
is not too trivial :/

Does my project rise any ideas or is there somebody that has thought of 
doing similar things?

regards

Tuomo Pelkonen

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PA was once ported to Win32, but tha port has been neglected and would
need some non-trivial updating to work again.

There has been talk about doing a windows driver that forwards to PA
every now and then. But to my knowledge noone capable and sincere
enough actually really did something about it. Much talk and no do in
this area.

someone wrote winesd years ago, so something like this is definitely
possible to write, but quite frankly I have no clue about Windows and
especially not driver development on Windows so I am really not the
right person to ask about this. 

You'd have to port at least the PA client libraries to Windows to get
started. Given that the client libs don't use much of the fancier
Linuxish stuff that should be fairly easy to do. Porting the server
itself would be more work.

Patches always welcome!

Lennart

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> > Hi!
> >
> > I might be putting up an open source project doing an audio driver for  
> > windows that would not use any hardware but use pulseaudio client  
> > software to stream audio to pulseaudio server over network. Just few  
> > questions came to mind:
> > - Have you heard anyone else might be doing similar
> > - Do you have any ideas of barriers in doing such a thing
>