[Bug 29206] New: Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.dir'.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29206

Bug #: 29206
           Summary: Director Player Error:  Unable to load movie playlist.
                    Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a section
                    '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.dir'.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.33
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Director Player Error: 
Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exist? It must contain a
section '[Movies]' with an entry 'Movie01=Pathname.dir'.

Already tried with native msvcrt.dll, no success.

The software is Mystery Cases - Madame Fate from Bigfish games. I'm not using
any native dll.

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29206

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Director Player Error:      |Director Player Error:
                   |Unable to load movie        |Unable to load movie
                   |playlist. Does the .INI     |playlist
                   |file exist? It must contain |
                   |a section '[Movies]' with   |
                   |an entry                    |
                   |'Movie01=Pathname.dir'.     |

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29206

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen  2011-11-30 08:23:02 CST ---
How exactly are you starting this program? Please post complete terminal
output.

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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Dan Kegel  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |download
                URL|                            |http://www.bigfishgames.com
                   |                            |/download-games/2230/myster
                   |                            |y-case-files-madame-fate/in
                   |                            |dex.html
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel  2011-11-30 08:28:08 CST ---
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/200917 
http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=3254
http://www.justskins.com/forums/projector-and-ini-file-78810.html
suggest that error can be caused by installing to a too-long path.
Not sure how Wine would cause that.

http://forums.bigfishgames.com/posts/list/101782.page suggests installing
Shockwave Player 8.5 may have helped a different game with that error.

I see there's a free trial for that game, adding url.

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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--- Comment #3 from Carlos Salvador Pérez Salgado  2011-11-30 20:53:26 CST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> How exactly are you starting this program? Please post complete terminal
> output.

~/Wine_C: $ wine Games/Bigfish/Mystery\ Case\ Files\ -\ Madame\ Fate/Madame\
Fate.exe 
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000001): partial stub.
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl returning zero-filled buffer for
IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl Unsupported ioctl 74080 (device=7 access=1
func=20 method=0)
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl returning zero-filled buffer for
IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl Unsupported ioctl 74080 (device=7 access=1
func=20 method=0)
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl returning zero-filled buffer for
IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl Unsupported ioctl 74080 (device=7 access=1
func=20 method=0)
fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x70,4,0x49a330): stub

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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Dan Kegel  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #4 from Dan Kegel  2011-11-30 23:34:47 CST ---
I reproduced it as follows:
  rm -rf ~/.wine
  winetricks ie8    (ie7 wasn't enough)
  wget
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/2230/mystery-case-files-madame-fa...
  mv download.html setup.exe
  ~/wine-git/wine setup.exe
Then use the manager to download and install
  cd ~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files/Mystery Case Files - Madame Fate"
  ~/wine-git/wine Madame\ Fate.exe

Feels kinda like copy protection...

[Bug 29206] Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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--- Comment #5 from Carlos Salvador Pérez Salgado  2011-12-01 18:24:25 CST ---
I wrote a guide to install bigfish game manager and the games at wine appdb,
but someone edit them... I don't know why they do things like that. If the
program works better with a new version, one should leave the other ways as an
archive entry...
I'm using wine 1.3.33 built from source in gentoo linux.

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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           Keywords|                            |Abandoned?

--- Comment #6 from Ken Sharp  ---
Is this still an issue in Wine 1.7.45 or later?

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[e-mail] changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail],
                   |                            |[e-mail]

[Bug 29206] Mystery Cases - Madame Fate (Bigfish games): Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|Abandoned?                  |obfuscation
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
            Summary|Director Player Error:      |Mystery Cases - Madame Fate
                   |Unable to load movie        |(Bigfish games): Director
                   |playlist                    |Player Error:  Unable to
                   |                            |load movie playlist

--- Comment #7 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

works fine here.

* Bigfish games stub downloader -> Bigfish Game Manager
* Bigfish Game Manager download -> downloads actual game, installs, activates
* running the actual game

If the DRM scheme (Armadillo 4.x) was already used in the version years ago
when this bug was report created then it's certainly a dupe.

--- snip ---
-=[ ProtectionID v0.6.6.7 DECEMBER]=-
(c) 2003-2015 CDKiLLER & TippeX
Build 24/12/14-22:48:13
Ready...
Scanning -> C:\Program Files\Mystery Case Files - Madame Fate\MadameFate.exe
File Type : 32-Bit Exe (Subsystem : Win GUI / 2), Size : 14542648 (0DDE738h)
Byte(s)
Compilation TimeStamp : 0x413FFC3A -> Thu 09th Sep 2004 06:46:18 (GMT)
[TimeStamp] 0x413FFC3A -> Thu 09th Sep 2004 06:46:18 (GMT) | PE Header | - |
Offset: 0x000000F0 | VA: 0x200000F0 | -
-> File Appears to be Digitally Signed @ Offset 0DDD000h, size : 01738h / 05944
byte(s)
[File Heuristics] -> Flag #1 : 00000000000000001100001000000111 (0x0000C207)
[Entrypoint Section Entropy] : 7.01 (section #4) ".adata  " | Size : 0xD000
(53248) byte(s)
[DllCharacteristics] -> Flag : (0x0000) -> NONE
[SectionCount] 8 (0x8) | ImageSize 0xE16000 (14770176) byte(s)
[VersionInfo] Company Name : Big Fish Games. Inc.                               
[VersionInfo] File Description : Adobe Projector
[VersionInfo] File Version : 1.00
[VersionInfo] Internal Name : MCF: Madame Fate
[VersionInfo] Legal Copyrights : Copyright ©  2007
[!] Armadillo v4.66 detected !
[CdKeySerial] found "SerialNumber" @ VA: 0x000CC117 / Offset: 0x00098117
[CompilerDetect] -> Visual C/C++
- Scan Took : 3.722 Second(s) [000000CCEh (3278) tick(s)] [499 of 573 scan(s)
done]
--- snip ---

$ wine --version
wine-1.7.55

Regards

[Bug 29206] Mystery Cases - Madame Fate (Bigfish games): Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #8 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.8-rc1.