[Bug 12997] New: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

Summary: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound
                    in movies and no background sound/voices ingame
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.61.
          Platform: PC-x86-64
               URL: ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/demos/rotk.zip
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

This was mentioned in all test results on AppDb but I found no bugreport for
this so far.

The Problem: the game movies do not have any sound whatsoever. Additionally
there are background sounds/music and character voices missing ingame. As far
as I can tell, the same problem exists in the downloadable demo I linked.

I have played around a bit with ALSA/OSS settings and emulation mode but had no
success with it. I'm testing on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 with kernel
2.6.24-17-generic and snd_intel_hda sound using wine-0.9.61 from
wine.budgetdedicated.com repository.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

--- Comment #1 from Sebastian Friedel   2008-05-05 16:44:45 ---
Created an attachment (id=12757)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=12757)
normal console output when lauching the game

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

--- Comment #2 from Sebastian Friedel   2008-05-05 16:49:38 ---
here is another log, this time with +seh,+relay,+dsound
http://rapidshare.com/files/112832666/rotk.log.bz2.html

What I forgot to mention: both logs are from the full game, not the demo.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

Sebastian Friedel  changed:

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Sebastian Friedel  changed:

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            Version|0.9.61.                     |1.0-rc1

--- Comment #3 from Sebastian Friedel   2008-05-17 02:29:24 ---
still present in 1.0-rc1

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

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Lei Zhang  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Lei Zhang   2008-05-17 15:11:37 ---
Please don't change the original reported version.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

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Florian  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Florian   2008-11-28 11:09:21 ---
Bug is still present with wine-1.1.9
There are some sounds ingame like flying arrows, parried swords but there is no
voice and no music.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

--- Comment #6 from Florian   2008-11-28 15:44:32 ---
Sorry for double posting. I checked the game folder and the movies are located
in "./Data/Movies" folder. They are in AVI and I tried to play them with native
totem and VLC. They showed the same behaviour like ingame. There is no sound,
so I think this is a codec issue. I did a quick research and found out that
"The Return of the King" seems to use Videos encoded in the DXGM codec which
seems to be some kind of special codec by EA games. Maybe that could be the
issue. I might try to reencode the videos to a codec I can play. Though I doubt
that this will work.
Still there would be the missing voices ingame.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

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--- Comment #7 from MiH@Ly4   2008-11-29 14:46:11 ---
I've looked up movies' properties, and found out, that there are no audio
channel at all. It seems that sounds, like ambient, music, or audio chanels for
videos are situated separately in resource packs in the game. They seem to use
libraries, such as EAX, or else, that hasn't implemented in Wine yet. Though,
Cedega has the same problems with the game.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

--- Comment #8 from Florian   2008-11-30 05:51:46 ---
I noticed too, that the clips have no sound track. I think they are taken from
"./Data/Game/" There are folders namend like "ise" or "min". I think these are
shortcuts for the particular levels. In the folders are some *.scw files. But I
was not able to open them using ScoreWriter4 Demo or MovieMagicScreenwriter
with wine. It could be interesting what is inside these files. Although I think
that this wouldn't help us.
Unsupported codecs or libraries sound reasonable as an explaination for the
problem. Still to find out what the problem is.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12997

--- Comment #9 from Sebastian Friedel   2008-11-30 07:15:07 ---
I always found this issue to be kind of strange.

I think I once got it working under wine around 0.96 and later it broke, but I
already tried to do regression testing but never found a wine version that
worked again.

Still broken for me too with wine 1.1.9 on Arch Linux 64bit.

[Bug 12997] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: no sound in movies and no background sound/voices ingame

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Chaitanya  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Chaitanya   2009-04-06 23:38:12 ---
Sound in game movies is working for me in wine 1.1.18. I think this bug can now
be marked as fixed.

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Austin English  changed:

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         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #11 from Austin English   2009-04-06 23:53:50 ---
Reported fixed.

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Alexandre Julliard   2009-04-10 10:57:20 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.19.