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04/11/2014
by André Hentschel
Issue: 367

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This is the 367th issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org


This week, 213 posts consumed 145 K. There were 27 different contributors. 15 (55%) posted more than once. 10 (37%) posted last week too.

The top 5 posters of the week were:

  1. 16 posts in 19K by bunglehead at gmail.com (Nikolay Sivov)
  2. 12 posts in 15K by dmitry at baikal.ru (Dmitry Timoshkov)
  3. 6 posts in 11K by stefandoesinger at gmail.com (Stefan Dösinger)
  4. 4 posts in 6K by ken at codeweavers.com (Ken Thomases)
  5. 3 posts in 1K by madewokherd at gmail.com (Vincent Povirk)

GPU decoding Archive

As some browser plugins require the dxva2 dll for GPU decoding of e.g. video streams, the Pipelight guys started to work on this dll. Michael Müller wrote:

Hi,

it is probably still a bit early, but nevertheless I would like to announce a feature I am currently working on and present you the first results. As some of you have already noticed (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35868) I've recently submitted some simple stub patches to add the dxva2 dll. The original purposes was to get a browser plugin working, which expects that this library is available, and otherwise refuses to run. The library exports some functions which are used by several applications (like VLC, Flash, Silverlight, ...) for GPU decoding. I started to work to on these functions and I want to present you a first result which you can see here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61413222/dxva2.png

...


Weekly AppDB/Bugzilla Status Changes Archive
AppDB / Bugzilla
Bugzilla Changes:

Category Total Bugs Last Issue Total Bugs This Issue Net Change
UNCONFIRMED 4037 4036 -1
NEW 3414 3421 +7
ASSIGNED 18 18 0
REOPENED 124 124 0
RESOLVED 178 161 -17
CLOSED 28099 28188 +89
TOTAL OPEN 7593 7599 +6
TOTAL 35870 35948 +78



AppDB Application Status Changes

*Disclaimer: These lists of changes are automatically generated by information entered into the AppDB. These results are subject to the opinions of the users submitting application reviews. The Wine community does not guarantee that even though an application may be upgraded to 'Gold' or 'Platinum' in this list, that you will have the same experience and would provide a similar rating.

Updates by App Maintainers

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
Battlefield 2 Steam Silver (1.4) Gold (1.7.15)
+1
Cossacks - Back to War 1.37 Imperial Mod Silver (1.3.17) Gold (1.7.16)
+1
Drakan: Order of the Flame 1.0 Bronze (1.5.16) Gold (1.7.15)
+2
osu! Public Garbage (1.6) Gold (1.7.15)
+3
Cossacks - Back to War 1.35 Gold (1.3.34) Silver (1.7.16)
-1
Igor Engraver 1.7 Platinum (1.5.15) Silver (1.7.15)
-2
Total Change
+4

Updates by the Public

Application Old Status/Version New Status/Version Change
Aerofly profesional deluxe AFPD 1.8.0.9 Gold (1.3.32) Platinum (1.6.1)
+1
Battle.net App Open Beta Garbage (1.7.13) Platinum (1.7.15)
+4
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun 1.0-2.03 Gold (1.4.1) Platinum (1.6.1)
+1
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Stable Gold (1.7.15) Platinum (1.7.16)
+1
Left 4 Dead Full (Steam) Gold (1.5.22) Platinum (1.7.12)
+1
The Fourth Coming 1.70 Bronze (1.3.30) Platinum (1.6.2)
+3
Torchlight II Steam version Gold (1.6-rc5) Platinum (1.6.1)
+1
Adobe Photoshop CS (8.0) Silver (1.4.1) Gold (1.6.2)
+1
Borderlands 2 1.7.0 (Steam) Silver (1.7.10) Gold (1.7.16)
+1
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 1.00x Silver (1.5.29) Gold (1.6.1)
+1
Disciples III Resurrection 1.1 Garbage (1.2.2) Gold (1.7.15)
+3
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Stable Platinum (1.7.14) Gold (1.7.15)
-1
LEGO Racers 2 1.00 Platinum (1.1.23) Gold (1.7.15)
-1
Project: I'm Going In 1.0 Silver (1.5.20) Gold (1.7.15)
+1
Stronghold: Crusader 1.x Platinum (1.2.2) Gold (1.4.1)
-1
War Thunder 1.x Garbage (1.6.2) Gold (1.7.16)
+3
ASC Timetables 2014 Bronze (1.4.1) Silver (1.6.1)
+1
Adobe Photoshop CC Garbage (1.7.13) Silver (1.7.15)
+2
Cinema 4D R14 Platinum (1.5.30) Silver (1.6.1)
-2
Command & Conquer: The First Decade 1.x Garbage (1.4.1) Silver (1.7.16)
+2
Path of Exile Release Gold (1.7.10) Silver (1.7.11)
-1
Plants Vs. Zombies GOTY Edition Gold (1.4-rc3) Silver (1.7.15)
-1
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale 1.105 [English] Bronze (1.3.3) Silver (1.7.15)
+1
Telegram 0.43 Platinum (1.4.1) Silver (1.7.15)
-2
Visio 2007 Gold (1.4.1) Silver (1.7.15)
-1
Winamp 5.x Platinum (1.7.13) Silver (1.7.15)
-2
Adobe Reader 10.x Gold (1.4) Bronze (1.4.1)
-2
Aion: The Tower of Eternity 4.0.x Garbage (1.7.12) Bronze (1.7.15)
+1
Sonos Desktop Controller 4.2 Garbage (1.6.2) Bronze (1.7.15)
+1
South Park: The Stick of Truth Steam Gold (1.7.14) Bronze (1.7.15)
-2
Age Of Empires II: HD Edition Steam Bronze (1.6-rc4) Garbage (1.7.15)
-1
Age of Wonders III 1.0.0 Bronze (1.6.1) Garbage (1.7.15)
-1
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator 2.0 Gold (1.4.1) Garbage (1.7.15)
-3
Duke Nukem Forever Duke Nukem Forever - Full game Bronze (1.3.31) Garbage (1.7.15)
-1
FIFA World Cup 2006 1.0 Platinum (1.1.10) Garbage (1.4.1)
-4
Goat Simulator 1.0.27849 Gold (1.7.15) Garbage (1.7.16)
-3
LINE (Powered by Naver) 3.5.2.42 Bronze (1.7.14) Garbage (1.7.15)
-1
Path of Exile Release Silver (1.7.11) Garbage (1.7.15)
-2
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 1.0 Gold (1.3.29) Garbage (1.7.15)
-3
SWiSH Max 4.x Bronze (1.4) Garbage (1.4.1)
-1
SketchUp 2014 Bronze (1.7.14) Garbage (1.7.15)
-1
War Thunder 1.x Silver (1.6-rc3) Garbage (1.6.2)
-2
Total Change
-9

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