Wine 9.18 brings a new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg

​This wine version come with many changes some related screen management

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other important change cited in phoronix forum is child window rendering*

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6467

*however in my case catherine still fucked in both ways: no cinematics - only white screen

also have some changes in control panel input app

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also run some newer titles like this:

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back to ffmpeg backend is needed add registry key

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6442

This introduces a new alternative FFmpeg-based implementation for the MF byte stream handlers, while keeping the current GStreamer-based as default.

The new implementation can be enabled by setting the DWORD value:

DisableGstByteStreamHandler = 1

in the HKCU\Software\Wine\MediaFoundation registry key.​

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in my case mp4+mp3 magic still working (case atelier sophie - god eater resurrection - bully scholarship - onimusha 3 demon siege - ninja blade)

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mpeg (case melty blood act cadenza, resident evil 4 2005) work

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and stay testing other titles (avi cinematics on enter the matrix for example)

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but wmv (with wmapro audio) however still is a problem in my case

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in my case mp4+mp3 magic still working

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What game is this? It looks like God Eater, but I'm not sure.

What game is this? It looks like God Eater, but I'm not sure.

Yeah is god eater resurrection (i added in description)

​This wine version come with many changes some related screen management

!link

other important change cited in phoronix forum is child window rendering*

http://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6467

*however in my case catherine still fucked in both ways: no cinematics - only white screen

also have some changes in control panel input app

!link

!link

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also run some newer titles like this:

!link

!link

!link


back to ffmpeg backend is needed add registry key

http://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6442

This introduces a new alternative FFmpeg-based implementation for the MF byte stream handlers, while keeping the current GStreamer-based as default.

The new implementation can be enabled by setting the DWORD value:

DisableGstByteStreamHandler = 1

in the HKCU\Software\Wine\MediaFoundation registry key.​

!link


in my case mp4+mp3 magic still working (case atelier sophie - god eater resurrection - bully scholarship - onimusha 3 demon siege - ninja blade)

!link

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!link

!link

!link

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mpeg (case melty blood act cadenza, resident evil 4 2005) work

!link

!link

!link


and stay testing other titles (avi cinematics on enter the matrix for example)

!link

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!link

!link

!link

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but wmv (with wmapro audio) however still is a problem in my case

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New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

Yeah and elderborn cinematics stay in same situation

mpeg (case melty blood act cadenza, resident evil 4 2005) work

Does it work with gstreamer as well or is this something new?


I had hoped for some (more) examples of things that suddenly work, but nevertheless I think that ffmpeg will be a more reliable option going forward.

Does it work with gstreamer as well or is this something new?

I had hoped for some (more) examples of things that suddenly work, but nevertheless I think that ffmpeg will be a more reliable option going forward.

yeah but before week have much movement and when you use registry key showed in my first post, wine begin use ffmpeg

remi bernon have many activity in last week, i think compile wine 1 time each day in lastest 6 or 8 days but since around 3 days remi bernon add commits to begin use ffmpeg implementation

for this reason test various type of cinematics for see how work ffmpeg

and i think similar than you around maybe can solve some issues in actual wine gstreamer implementation

personally wmv+audio is very problematic in actual wine gstreamer, if ffmpeg implementation can solve wmv+audio issues will be a huge progress

but wmv (with wmapro audio) however still is a problem in my case

Ahh, I'm guessing Yuzusoft still doesn't work by default then. Well, at least it seems like a lot of VNs are getting worked on through ProtonGE, so at least there's that.

New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

Yeah and elderborn cinematics stay in same situation

Was hoping this would be resolved, there are several unity games which unfortunately suffer from this.

Maybe in the near future.

New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

Obviously this won't fix all MF issues by kind of magic. But the advantage of using FFMPEG as a backend is that it's native, so if something broke is your implementation.

Obviously this won't fix all MF issues by kind of magic. But the advantage of using FFMPEG as a backend is that it's native, so if something broke is your implementation.

Before remi bernon ffmpeg implementation stay merged

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6442

elizabeth figura seems dont agreed with ffmpeg for various reasons

however other alternative is good because can give better results in certain scenaries

gstreamer is native too however also have various issues according remi bernon

almost forget in my case this wine solve two annoying issues with dxvk (this games run with wined3d but dont with dxvk)

dungeon siege III always show a begin error (related d3d9compiler_47) and after this close but now works again

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and magical battle festa this title have a config menu but this menu dont appear with dxvk (however with wined3d appear) and now appear with dxvk

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