Ventrilo and wine

[Soulfly]

Using ventrillo through wine AND playing a game is VERY cpu intensive. I noticed this because I overclock my cpu to various speeds. Anything less than 2ghz on my computer, and ventrillo stutters like crazy. Just don't use ventrillo.

Isn't that (your first sentence) a too definite statement to make after just testing it on just one setup (HW-kernel-drivers-sw-configurations) ?

[ludzter]

I need some help, my "push to talk" hotkey only works if i have ventrilo marked, so lets say i am chatting with some friends with x-chat, then i cant talk to the people on the vent server...

[gil-galad]

I need some help, my "push to talk" hotkey only works if i have ventrilo marked, so lets say i am chatting with some friends with x-chat, then i cant talk to the people on the vent server...

Theres nothing you can do about that. Push to talk only works when the window is in focus.

[seethru]

Theres nothing you can do about that. Push to talk only works when the window is in focus.

not getting any sound from this, I believe I'm missing codec's.

[Gnobody]

Use Gnome Meeting! It is SIP which is the most popular standard of VoIP.

[IeU]

Use Gnome Meeting! It is SIP which is the most popular standard of VoIP.

am i able to conect to ventrilo servers ?

[zrothe]

am i able to conect to ventrilo servers ?

Thats priceless.

[zrothe]

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I've been trying to get ventrilo working for a while. Well today I got it working with no hastle and since a quick search here for 'ventrilo' turned up only one topic I thought I'd post what I found

Note: The version of wine I used was from the backports repository, I haven't tried any other version so step 1 may be unnecessary.

1. Add the extra repositores from the Unnoffical Ubuntu Guide:

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#repositories

2. Install the following packages:

wine (version 0.0.20050419-1~5.04ubp1)
libwine (version 0.0.20050419-1~5.04ubp1)
libwine-alsa (version 0.0.20050419-1~5.04ubp1)
cabextract

3. Download Ventrilo:

http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

4. Make a directory for ventrilo and extract it:

mkdir ~/ventrilo
cd ~/ventrilo
cabextract /path/to/ventrilo-2.2.0-Windows-i386.exe

5. Edit the file:

~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini

And add the following line:

MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm

6. Next you need to get your hands on the windows file 'msgsm32.acm' from an existing windows partition (C:/WINDOWS/system32/msgsm32.acm) and copy it to '~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system/'.

7. Run vent:

cd ~/ventrilo
wine ./Ventrilo.exe

I hope it works, and I also hope I'm didn't state the obvious

I can now hear people which is GREAT! , but I still cannot talk. When I go under settings and hit monitor sometimes it says

"Codec Initialization failed: Unable to find specified codec."

Other times starts monitoring but it says "Abs Zero" over and over.

[zrothe]

I take that back, I just played around with the devices and its working. Thanks for this guide, helped me alot.


BTW I was able to get key bindings to work.

One for example was I bount insert to 'mute microphone'.

You do it the exact way you would in windows, only thing is the mouse cursor seems to get stuck in the center when you opent he bindings window. I had to tab my way to the key input field and hit insert. Then I just slung the mouse to the right and kept clicking until it finally went into that field. Then just shift+tab untill you get to the top drop down and then select mute microphone then tab to the add button and hit spacebar....wala.

[zazeem]

hi can someone help me, i got ventrilo running fine but i cant talk on it at all, i can only hear others. is there some way to enable o i can speak to them over vent??

zazeem@ubuntu:~/ventrilo$ wine ./Ventrilo.exe
errle:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not registered
errle:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not registered
fixmele:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396}, hres is 0x80040150
errle:CoGetClassObject class {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} not registered
errle:create_server class {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} not registered
fixmele:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53}, hres is 0x80040150
err:dscapture:widDsCreate DirectSoundCapture flag not set
This sound card's driver does not support direct access
The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
err:wave:OSS_OpenDevice ioctl(/dev/dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_SETTRIGGER, 3) failed (Broken pipe)