wine users - Jul 2008 - mp3 game produces no sound in Wine 1.0

Hello dear all,
my windows game plays mp3 sounds. (the game is C-evo)
the game runs fine under wine except for mp3 sounds.
my platform is Fedora 9-WINE 1.0.
The audio test in winecfg works fine.

Trying to solve the problem, I"ve installed a mp3 Fraunhofer codec in wine
(an exe file) ; problem remains.

At linux level I have no mp3 codec installed.

Does any one has a clue to such problem ?

louy2k schrieb:
> Hello dear all,
> my windows game plays mp3 sounds. (the game is C-evo)
> the game runs fine under wine except for mp3 sounds.
> my platform is Fedora 9-WINE 1.0.
> The audio test in winecfg works fine.
> 
> Trying to solve the problem, I"ve installed a mp3 Fraunhofer codec in
wine (an exe file) ; problem remains.
> 
> At linux level I have no mp3 codec installed.
> 
> Does any one has a clue to such problem ?
if the symptom is, that there is sound for a very short time (0.5s 
maybe), then it is probably because of the wine mp3 implementaion that 
it won't work... I think it has problems if there are unexpected 
sampling rates (that's speculation). Use winecfg to disable winemp3.acm 
(like with a dll, there is also a disabling/deactivation option). You 
have to type in the name completely and wine will warn you about doing 
something with this.. but you still should. After this the Frauenhofer 
codec you installed should be used instead.

bye Jochen

Dear Jochen,

Thanks for your reply,

Some files may be played, but for a so short duration that I can hardly hear
anything :)) !!!

Auditing my mp3 files generates the following report:

IDv3 tag missing,

various bit-rates :
some are CBR,
some are VBR.

some sampling rate at 32000,
some sampling rate at 22050,

some in joint stereo,
some in 1 mono,

all with volume gain set to 0.

Futhermore, I noticed that WINE 1.0 provides settings in the Audio tab.

Seems like it expects unified mp3 specs, especially for sampling rates.

Q1 : Do you have information on the winemp3.acm constrains ?

My guess is that one clue could be unify theses specs to a format that works
(yet unkown !!!)
Could be a lot of work, consequently unsure mainly because of time consumption.

Q2 : I've not found how to disable winemp3.acm yet, do you have any clue ?
(I'm sorry to ask, I may have missed some point in the wine documentation)

Thanks for your support, at least I have an idea where to search ...

Bye

Thanks Alexander for your answer .
I investigate various alternatives of wine. but no success.
On the other side, I installed audacity in Wine in order to play theses damned
mp3 files... which surprisingly worked. My conclusion for now is that Linux/Wine
seem less and less responsible of my issue ...