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Media Foundation needs enhancements
When I try installing MF using Winetricks, it installs only mf.dll file (native, builtin), but some games needs more files like:
mferror.dll mfplat.dll mfreadwrite.dll msmpeg2adec.dll msmpeg2vdec.dll sqmapi.dll
You can get more information from this comment from a related issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1102#issuecomment-419678627
I've already tried to make winetricks PR, but I've failed to find KB update or other download containing this files. Original media foundation downloads contains delta files except for win10. But win10 versions do not works with wine.
What if I changed Windows version to 10 from Wine configurations and tried win10 version of MF. Would that make any difference?
Lutris seem to use win7-sp1 for extraction of the files -> https://lutris.net/games/install/10999/view . Maybe that could help.
So I added what I could from win7sp1, but still missing several. If you're affected, please test https://github.com/austin987/winetricks/commit/5d653bfd9f2282a1d77edd3e4ed71205be1c4894
There is one workaround works for some games like Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Resident Evil 2 Remake, and Darksiders Warmastered Edition.
So this MF workaround provides:
mf.dll mfplate.dll mfreadwrite.dll wmadmod.dll wmvdecod.dll
and there is another MF workaround provides:
mf.dll mferror mfplate.dll mfreadwrite.dll msmpeg2adec.dll msmpeg2vdec.dll sqmapi.dll
and there is also some registry files needs to be imported as well, and that works with other games like Shadows: Awakening, and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales ... etc
All the info are in this post >>> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1102#issuecomment-419678627
And someone upload a prefix for Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales can be found here >>> https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/728#issuecomment-434885586
And there is also some games that need MF + WMP, and WMP can only be installed in 32bit prefix.
All the list of games that requires MF, WMP, or quartz can be found here >>> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464
So I added what I could from win7sp1, but still missing several. If you're affected, please test austin987@5d653bf
Is that commit in the main branch?
No, it's in a branch on my fork.
If I use git from terminal to download this branch what it will be?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/austin987/winetricks/5d653bfd9f2282a1d77edd3e4ed71205be1c4894/src/winetricks
Yes, that's noted in the commit. Those are in win7sp1, or anywhere else public I found.
Please pardon me. I have worked it for a day to publish this. https://gist.github.com/yooohoohello/fde4f9ed6aafc96a32c0d2739389ea7f
@austin987 It would be somewhat heavy handed, but you can likely extract the necessary DLLs from one of Microsoft’s Windows 10 developer VM downloads:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines
A Windows 10 ISO download might also work.
@ryao speaking of VMs, there are Win7 & Win8.1 VMs on https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
TheOuterWorlds just spits mfplat.dll.MFGetConfigurationDWORD unimplemented function error.
@jarrard could you try installing mf using:
https://github.com/Kreytricks/kreytricks/commit/11eb449f820b137410132e982fcdbf96683f539d
@jarrard also make a winebug and attach a full log if mfplat.dll.MFGetConfigurationDWORD is not already reported for referenced wineapp
@jarrard could you try installing mf using:
I used this url which installs MF correctly and works for TOW. https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install
No, it is not a valid upstream bug.
@austin987 elaborate? afaik wine has mfplat and based on provided info it lacks mfplat.dll.MFGetConfigurationDWORD
@jarrard
I used this url which installs MF correctly and works for TOW. https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install
could you try provided MR too? It has z0z0z's mirror implemented and is fetching the libraries from M$ files that we can download and cabextract.
could you try provided MR too?
To be honest I don't really know how to use that modified code with winetricks. Manually edit the winetricks script file?
@jarrard referencing https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/wiki/How-to-make-a-side-fork
ping me on irc.freenode.net as kreyren if you need a help + testing is appreciated
afaik wine has mfplat and based on provided info it lacks
mfplat.dll.MFGetConfigurationDWORD
When trying to play Catherine Classic, I get a crash with an error about that symbol being missing even though I'm using mf-installcab or kreytricks. mf-install doesn't make it crash but it doesn't fix the game either. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a game that these fixes don't cover?
For reference: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47758
The mixture of native and builtin doesn't work. If the problem is introduced by native components, it's generally not a Wine bug, particularly when you've overridden this many dlls.
Anyway, if you're using native mfplat.dll, by definition it can't be a Wine bug. It's a bug in the dlls themselves, or more likely, a sign that they can't be made to work on Wine standalone. Much like overriding IE dlls is hard and never quite worked properly, compared to something like vcrun*, which Microsoft explicitly made available as a standalone component.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure what i'm doing, trying to share my results so take that with a grain of salt since my results should be verified.
@chewi
I get a crash with an error about that symbol being missing even though I'm using mf-installcab or kreytricks. mf-install doesn't make it crash but it doesn't fix the game either.
I'm not sure why but z0z0z's script seems to have different outcome from my kreytricks implementation even when i'm sure that i've done the same thing as z0z0z so you might want to try that.. I guess that some combination of these libs (since my implementation is trying to extract them from M$ installers) or by using winetricks changes something in the result.
The results on my end were that z0z0z's script made wineapp working where my patch didn't. (thanks for testing though, i'm investigating why atm)
z0z0z's repo: https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install
EDIT: For these libraries upstream states that these are grabbed from M$ where i don't have reliable way to check what the libraries are actually doing, waiting for WhiteHat to check them
Also lutris seems to provide different mfplat.dll which shasum doesn't match the one that we have available so it may be some winelib with a hack?
Ping @tannisroot requesting more info ^
@austin987
Anyway, if you're using native mfplat.dll, by definition it can't be a Wine bug. It's a bug in the dlls themselves, or more likely, a sign that they can't be made to work on Wine standalone.
Based on my testing it seems that wineapps that require mf also need much more then just mfplat where it seems that wine doesn't have stubs to capture which functions are called. (Makng the debugging harder)
I tried to export mfplat only and disable other mf-related libraries which just results in no output from wine and then trying to capture which makes the difference, but so far i spent 5 hours on it and got nowhere unless all libs are used.
As a sidenote winedevs that i've talked to seems to believe that this should be fixed in mono where some bug for tracking this should be made since it can be anything from small patch to a large hell (based on info that i've gathered)