http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17403
--- Comment #17 from Jörg Höhle hoehle@users.sourceforge.net 2012-12-14 04:42:35 CST --- diafero or Gyb, please show md5sums of at least one file generated by Decompress.Exe a) on a native box or with a native winmm.dll (identical according to comment #7) and b) with Wine's winmm.dll. That'll allow others, e.g. Rosanne to assess what sort of file they got.
BTW, I'd be interested to know whether a native box with all sound drivers disabled passes the Decompress stage. I believe it should, because the codecs do not depend on an actual backend. I'm curious how Wine would react.
winepulse should make no difference in an original winmm bug. It may make a difference w.r.t. the crash initially reported in comment #11. BTW, attaching a backtrace (from Wine compiled from source incl. debug info) may help with crashes, together with a short log of the last calls prior to the crash.