<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> I have an old win16 application which needs to play AVI files but I get errors like "<b>couldn''t load driver for avivideo</b>". I looked at the howto at <A HREF="http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/ch-multimedia.html">http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/ch-multimedia.html</A> and did the following... <br>1) Added the lines <p>[option] <br>mci=CDAUDIO:SEQUENCER:WAVEAUDIO:AVIVIDEO:MPEGVIDEO <p>at the end of wine.conf, <p>2) Created a file system.ini in the windows directory of my fake Windows installation and added the lines <p>[mci] <br>cdaudio=mcicda.drv <br>sequencer=mciseq.drv <br>waveaudio=mciwave.drv <br>avivideo=mciavi.drv <br>videodisc=mcipionr.drv <br>vcr=mcivisca.drv <br>MPEGVideo=mciqtz.drv <p>Now I get the message <br>Line 221: Unrecognised input : mci=CDAUDIO:SEQUENCER:WAVEAUDIO:AVIVIDEO:MPEGVIDEO <p>This is most frustrating. <br>So how do I get this thing to work? <p>I am using the latest (as of 3rd June 2001) Codeweavers Wine on Mandrake 8.0. I used all the default settings to install it. <br>The application I am trying to run is Macromedia Action Player, PLAYACT.EXE. Why? Because that is what the presentations are done in, they are quite old. <br>Why not use Windows? Because this is a shop display computer meaning:- <br>1) I don''t want to advertise Windows to the world, and I certainly don''t want to pay for it. <br>2) The computer may get switched off improperly when the shop closes. Reieser FS may help in this situation. Yes we do try hard to educate the staff but accidents happen.</html>
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Simon Blandford wrote:> I have an old win16 application which needs to play AVI files but I get errors like "couldn't load driver for avivideo". I looked at the howto at > http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/ch-multimedia.html and did the following... > 1) Added the lines > > [option] > mci=CDAUDIO:SEQUENCER:WAVEAUDIO:AVIVIDEO:MPEGVIDEO > > at the end of wine.conf,Do you mean ~/.wine/config? Or are you using a really old wine version? If not, that format is wrong... .wine/config requires quoting and such: [options] "mci" = "..." (it should also be options, not option)