http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35192
--- Comment #21 from Janhouse janhouse@gmail.com --- Well, after examining the windowscodesc installer I figured that you can install it only if you change your wineprefix to windows xp (and later changed back to win7). So I did that and installed it but it didn't solve the problem. So it is not the codecs package that affects this.
I guess that it is some Linux library used by wine what causes the problem? I am running Archlinux (so it is always latest versions of everything).
What distro and version are you guys using?
In this case some more serious debugging is required and I hardly know about wine debugging.