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1 This is a plugin for foobar2000 that uses SDL for output instead of
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2 DirectSound/WASAPI/etc.
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4 The primary motivation here is not to have SDL as a backend on Windows,
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5 but on Linux/wine. It effectively means we bypass the directsound
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6 emulation. Of course we're still going through a compatibility layer,
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7 so the real-world benefits may not be as good as it seems. Oh well.
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8 DirectSound sucks anyway.
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10 You can use this today as a wrapper on wine by compiling the tiny
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11 wrapper .c file.
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