[cw-discuss] Directshow on crossover mac

[Francois Gouget]

Hi,

Uffe Hammer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to get a simple win32 application to work with your Crossover 
> Mac software, and it runs perfectly until i try to play a simple mjpeg 
> .avi file, which results in a "OLE Error". Now this is my own 
> application and i can tell you very accurately what happens behind the 
> scenes, normally it creates a directshow filtergraph (directx8) and then 
> tries running it, so the error is either generated because the system 
> doesn't support directshow or because the correct Codec wasn't 
> installed, however it should run on a barebone windows 2000 machine 
> without any additional codecs (mjpeg is natively supported)?
> I thought that Wine and thereby Crossover office supported directx8 and 9?

Well, there are many parts in DirectX: Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectPlay, 
DirectInput, DirectSound, etc. Generally Wine and CrossOver support most 
of the DirectX 8 and 9 Direct3D features. However in other areas support 
may be lacking a bit more. I'm not aware of the specifics, but I would 
not be surprised if some codecs are missing :-(

Do you happen to know which dll implements support for the MJPEG codec? 
Maybe installing an application like Windows Media Player or VLC would 
provide that codec?

Regards,

-- 
Francois Gouget
fgouget at codeweavers.com