On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 6:05 AM Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that _actually_ testing would be ideal, but I don't think it should be a _blocker_. That said, I'm in the same position, and my position is my own. I raise it because I feel like few others were giving feedback :).
Thank you, Austin, I appreciate your input on the matter.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 6:26 AM Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
The issue is not testing the patch, it's demonstrating that there's a need for it in the first place.
In this case, the only way to demonstrate there's a need for it is to test the game. And like I said earlier, this can only happen at specific cutscenes so it'll take a significant amount of time to test.
I'm open to doing this, but I'll need the game itself to proceed. If you're serious about it please send me a CD-Key of the game. And while we're at it, please hire me as a tester. I can test patches for other games to confirm they fix issues.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 8:44 AM Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
In this specific case, since it's not a Windows DLL but some internal IE thing, it would additionally need a convincing explanation of why we need the dll on Wine even though it's not present on most Windows installs.
I disagree that it's just an internal IE dll, it doesn't make sense to me. I think the name is misleading. It seems more like a part of the Media Foundation that was later merged into mfplat. This is backed by the exported mf functions. Furthermore, I don't think Chromium would use an internal IE component, that seems bizarre.
Since the functions are already implemented, this dll would serve as a viable alternative to msmpeg2vdec in Chromium-based browsers.
-- Kind regards, Mohamad