[Bug 9127] Games video movies are not playable

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9127

--- Comment #50 from [e-mail] 2013-09-03 17:14:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #49)
> Alright, I haven't been able to get the movies playing in Steins;Gate. I'm
> using Mac OS X 10.8.4 and wine 1.7.1, and I installed wine with homebrew.
>
> When it gets to a movie 1 of 2 things happens, depending on the type of movie.
> If it's a movie that plays alongside other stuff going on, such as the spinning
> satellite on the main menu or the movies showing special effects then they show
> up, but it's static. The satellite is there but it does not spin, and the same
> thing goes for the special effects. Usually I can continue on past these, but
> occasionally it causes the game to freeze. Now, if the movie is something like
> the openings or endings then I get nothing. The movie doesn't play at all, and
> I get a black screen. Steins;Gate is still running, however, since pressing
> "escape" brings up the option to end the game, and if I have the option set in
> the game's config menu, then I can skip pass this with "enter." Again,
> occasionally these cause Steins;Gate to crash.
>
> I have tried pretty much everything that's been said here and at the
> Steins;Gate page on this site: quartz (I had to do devenum here too or else
> quartz would crash), ffdshow (with the mpeg options selected), dirac,
> OpenCodecs, and d3dx9. Nothing changed the behavior I described above. Also,
> from what I've heard, ffdshow is supposed to display a pop-up the first time
> you use it, but no such thing has happened for me.
>
> Also, the videos in Fate/Stay Night, while skipping a bit here and there, do
> play right away. When I installed quartz/devenum however, I got a white screen
> when trying to play a video, although the audio still worked, and when I tried
> ffdshow on top of that, I did get a small pop-up, but it was too small so
> nothing could be read, and there was only an "OK" button. However, the
> Fate/Stay Night video did not play before or after pressing the "OK" button.

Alright, here's an update.

So, I was going and getting the terminal output that came up when I tried to
play videos, and I saw "qtsplitter." I figured this was the player, so after
some googling I found that it was part of wineqtdecoder, which is a wine video
player using Mac OS X Quicktime Frameworks. So, seeing it was a DLL I opened up
winecfg, disabled wineqtdecoder, and then used winetricks to get quartz,
devenum, and ffdshow.

Bam! Videos are now working perfectly in Steins;Gate and no longer skipping in
Fate/Stay Night. So it appears that wineqtdecoder could use some work, since it
seems that was the source of the problem.