Half-Life sound problem

[Daniel Foesch]

>Daiel, can you tell me what value works for you for _snd_mixahead? Also,=
>=20
>at startup I get and error messages about not being able to open an MCI =
>
>file for playback. The error messages repeats twice and then HL starts=20
>but I get no CD audio.  Any idea how to correct this?
>
>Thanks,
>Rick (rick at rlknight.com)=20
>
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>On 3/8/01, 10:15:14 AM, krach42 at aol.com (Daniel Foesch) wrote regarding =
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>Re: Half-Life sound problem:
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>> _snd_mixahead I know you said you tried it, but you should try various=
>=20
>values.
>> I finally managed to get mine to work, but it was more of a "oh, hey, =
>it=20
>works"
>> than anything else.
>

To fix the MCI not found start Half-Life with the "-console" option.  Namely to
start Half-Life use the command-line "wine hl.exe -- -console"  That'll fix
that problem.  The reason (so I figure) for this is that Half-Life uses movies
that are dependant on a movie playback DLL included in default Windows, but
we've not covered in WINE, since most people designing Movie Playback
functionality for Linux are not connected normally to the WINE project. 
*shrug*

As for what value of _snd_mixahead worked for me, I'd have to look that up, I
don't have my computer here, but I'll definately send you and e-mail with the
value once I find out what I do use.

Daniel "Krach" Foesch
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