Wine avitools/aviplay fails with CO_E_NOTINITIALIZED for any AVI file

[Robert Shearman]

Marcus Meissner wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:09:35PM -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
>  
>
>>>It worked in the past.  When pclsidHandler is set to NULL it performs
>>>a registry lookup as the native version does it.  If these registry
>>>entries are missing it has a problem and could perhaps return the
>>>mentioned error - don't know as I have never tested it.
>>>
>>>In the past these informations were part of the default registry of
>>>wine but with the addition of the self-registration of many libraries
>>>this has been removed.  Don't ask me how to get the library to
>>>register itself - guess it has to do with regsrv32.exe, but I am not
>>>sure.  I am already too long out of the substance.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Based on a certain verification in the source code, I made aviinfo to 
>>work by adding the following to the registry:
>>    
>>
>
>I atually fixed avifil32 now, by adding an OleINitialize() to 
>AVIFileInit().
>  
>

You probably don't want OleInitialize as it also creates a lot of other 
stuff that you don't need like resources for supporting OLE drag-n-drop. 
Also, why didn't you call the correspoding uninitialize function? I've 
seen some nasty deadlocks that are caused by not calling CoUninitialize 
at the right time (with marshaled objects still active).

-- 
Rob Shearman