[Bug 48230] TES IV: Oblivion MP3 no longer play since wine-staging 4.17

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48230

--- Comment #4 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to belgix_oz from comment #3)
> It's kind a bit a non sense if gstreamer is know required as WAVE files are
> properly handled by wine-staging ALSA backend (winealsa.drv) for all
> versions (including the latest 4.21). I never compiled wine-staging with
> gstreamer (neither pulseaudio) support.
> 
> What is broken since 4.17 is the link between ALSA wine-staging backend and
> mpg123 which on my system are compiled 32 and 64-bit. That would means (if
> not fixed) ALSA backend is no longer fully supported by wine.

It's not the ability to decode WAVE files that we depend on (and, in the case
of raw integer PCM, no such decoding is taking place), but rather the general
file parsing and media streaming framework that GStreamer provides. (Hence also
why mpg123 isn't enough by itself). Yes, we used to have a standalone
DirectShow WAVE parser filter in tree. It took up over 2,000 lines of code, was
very buggy, and was not well-optimized. Making use of GStreamer is the better
option for these reasons.

I'm not entirely sure what this comment is about, though, since you initially
stated the game needs to play mp3 files, but the same principle applies.

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