[Bug 3853] Freelancer: music hangs

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3853


Cliffton Beach <killmorejedi at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Cliffton Beach <killmorejedi at hotmail.com>  2008-04-06 04:17:10 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> It is a bug in winemp3, no doubt about it. I switched to the Radium Fraunhofer 
> MP3 codec, now it works just fine. 

Freelancer had errors like this when run on Windows.  A very common cause of
problems was people with a hacked frauenhofer mp3 codec installed (to allow
encoding at higher bitrates for example).  Removing it and using the mp3 codec
that came with Windows fixed things*.  Funny to see something similar crop up
in Wine.

> I tried to locate the MP3 in the game data 
> files, to see if there's something unusual with the encoding, but I'm afraid I 
> couldn't find any MP3s - the in-game music is stored in WAVs... 

It _is_ actually .mp3, just with the extension changed to .wav for some reason.
 Just in case anyone wants to look at them :)


* http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814549
Further, from
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/freelancer/freelancer_demo.txt :

- Missing Game Sounds 
If you experience missing game sounds throughout Freelancer Trial Version then
a different audio codec is probably being used rather than the one provided by
Freelancer Trial Version. 

- Please follow these steps if some sounds and speech are still missing after
installation: 
- Uninstall any 3rd party codec pack or the Nimo Codec pack from your system. 
- Uninstall Freelancer Trial Version. 
- Go to the following directory, C:\WINDOWS\system32 and delete the file
"l3codecp.acm". If there happens to be another file named "l3codeca.acm",
delete this too. 
- If your system is Windows 98 or ME, open the system.ini file located in your
system folder; C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. Delete ONLY the line that starts with
"msacm.l3acm=". In the case of the Nimo codec pack, this will read
"msacm.l3acm=l3codecp.acm" 
- If your system is Windows 2000 or XP, open the system registry editor
(regedit) from the RUN command window. 
- Locate and delete the following key:
\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32\msacm.l3acm 
- Load the Freelancer Trial Version installation CD and locate the REDIST
folder. Within the REDIST folder, double click on the file named "WMFADist.exe"
and follow on-screen instructions. 
- Install Freelancer Trial Version. 


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