GLRage on Linux with Wine: play only RPL video

[legluondunet]

Hello,
I launch GLRage on Linux with Wine 2.x.
It works very good on Wine with some little tweaks.
Last time I replaced all RPL cinematics with AVI in HD and GLRage does not play them and send me errors messages:

So I resume: on Linux with WIne, Glrage play RPL videos but not .avi or other videos formats.
What does it uses to play/decode video?
Do I have to install a special codec or dll on WIne?

Thank you for your help.

[DarkSphere00]

@legluondunet how did you manage to make this work through Wine?

I did everything as explained, but when I try to launch tombati.exe it crashes with the error message "Fatal DirectDraw error!"

EDIT: For anyone wondering, I solved this by setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES='ddraw.dll=n' environment variable.

[dstolpmann]

Hi,

I looked into the problem, and it seems to occur because GStreamer or a required GStreamer plugin is missing. The issue is that a 32bit version of GStreamer and all plugins is required if a 32bit application executed via Wine wants to use it. Depending on the used Linux distribution, these need to be installed separately or might not be available at all. On Arch Linux, I installed the packages lib32-gstreamer, lib32-gst-plugins-base and lib32-gst-plugins-good. After this, the command line output given when the error message pops up changed and suggested that the H264 codec is missing. As this is part of the ugly GStreamer plugins, which are not available in the normal Arch Linux package repository, I stopped here.

Additionally, playing the CD audio soundtrack from files using a WinMM wrapper also did not work for me on Linux. I figured out that this requires the DLL overrides environment variable to be set to WINEDLLOVERRIDES='ddraw.dll=n;winmm.dll=n,b'.

Best regards
Daniel