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Ventrilo Client 3.0.x



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NameVentrilo Client
Version3.0.x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.ventrilo.com
Votes 7
RatingGold
Wine Version1.1.38
Free Download Ventilo - Download page
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Description
New version of ventrilo client http://www.ventrilo.com/changelog.php
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What works
Installation
Running
Connecting to server
Listening to others


What does not
Transmitting sound (hotkey doesnt work)


What was not tested

Uninstallation


Additional Comments
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowopenSUSE 11.2 x86_64Feb 20 20101.1.38 Yes Yes Gold Chris 
ShowGentoo LinuxJan 10 20101.1.35 Yes Yes Bronze Michael Griffin 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 21 20091.1.31 Yes Yes Gold Hety 
ShowLinux Mint 7 "Gloria"Oct 04 20091.1.30 Yes Yes Gold an anonymous user 
ShowSlackware 13.0Sep 12 20091.1.29 N/A Yes Silver an anonymous user 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
1348 RegisterHotKey and UnregisterHotKey are not implemented. (Affects e.g. Adobe Photoshop.) NEW View
5178 Ventrilo loses talk ability while using Push-To-Talk option NEW View
5623 GetAsyncKeyState wrong if querying process doesn't have focus NEW View
5924 Ventrilo error when multiple people talk NEW View
8103 Ventrilo list does not draw correctly at times NEW View
10495 Wine should support PulseAudio NEW View
16600 Ventrilo starts having a long delay after some time NEW View

 
HOWTO

Configuration:

You must place a copy of msgsm32.acm in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system for Ventrilo to work. This file can either be obtained from an existing Windows installation (C:\WINDOWS\System32), or it can be downloaded from Filefront (recommended) or Driverguide(free registration required).

Edit ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini and add the following under the drivers32 section: MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm

Set winecfg audio settings to use ALSA, choose emulation for the acceleration, and tick the driver emulation box.­

Running:

Start Ventrilo.exe from where it was installed, create your user profile and enter setup. Disable all DirectInput and enable all DirectSound options. You may test your configuration in the test area and adjust any mixer settings as needed.

Troubleshooting:

If you desire TTS, download and install ­SpeechSDK51.exe.

If you are having problems with PTT outside of Wine, an experimental program has been hacked together. You can download ventriloctrl-0.5 or ventriloctrl-0.4 or ventriloctrl-0.3.

If you are having problems with multiple soundcards, you may find this WoW forums thread helpful.

Make sure your microphone is working elsewhere on your system before troubleshooting Ventrilo specific issues. You should be able to use alsamixer to enable/boost/test your mic if it doesn't work already. Audacity may also be helpful for advanced mic troubleshooting.


 
WARNING: Pulseaudio

Pulseaudio is installed by default on recent versions of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Fedora Core. It is known to conflict with Wine (among other applications) on a hardware-dependant basis. Some people have reported success with using padsp and setting winecfg to use OSS, but this is not a guaranteed solution.

You may have to remove Pulseaudio via your package manager to get working sound. You may also have to remove a Pulseaudio-related file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d, set winecfg (and possibly other applications) to use ALSA, and possibly remove an asoundrc or asound.conf file in your home directory or in /etc.


 

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Codec not Working since Upgrading to 1.1.34
by Michael Griffin on Sunday January 10th 2010, 21:29
Tried both wine 1.1.34 and 1.1.35, GSM 6.10 codec no longer works anymore :(

Running Gentoo Linux 2.3.32 Kernel

Latest Vent 3.0.5 i386.

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Audio Issues
by ben on Tuesday December 22nd 2009, 17:38
I installed Vent 3.0.5 per the instructions on this page, with the exception of "and tick the driver emulation box.�" under CONFIGURATION - I don't see any sort of 'driver emulation' box under any tab. Aside from that, everything was installed as instructed, and now I don't have any sound from anything (WoW) running in Wine. Running Ubuntu 9.10, Wine 1.1.33
Any ideas?

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Mangler released, worked flawlessy
by Michael on Wednesday December 2nd 2009, 1:47
Just like to say that Mangler was released yesterday and works a thousand times better than Ventrilo through WINE.

www.mangler.org/download/

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Mangler
by Iksf on Saturday October 17th 2009, 10:39
Off topic as this is emulating Ventrilo but Mangler, an open source Vent client, is now good enough to use in replacement of Ventrilo.

svn is svn.mangler.org/mangler/

install steps:

svn co svn.mangler.org/mangler/
cd mangler/trunk
./configure
make
sudo make install

Note: I had to install the Speex package which ment hopping over to the speex website and installing that first

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  • RE: Mangler by Justin on Monday October 19th 2009, 17:24
    • RE: Mangler by Eric Kilfoil on Thursday October 22nd 2009, 1:58
  • RE: Mangler by Brent Rose on Monday November 16th 2009, 14:55
    • RE: Mangler by John Porterfield on Thursday November 19th 2009, 1:35
      • RE: Mangler by Jim on Tuesday February 23rd 2010, 13:30
PTT
by Justin on Tuesday September 29th 2009, 11:40
So I tried to get Vent running with Wine 1.1.30, and so far I've gotten everything to work except PTT. For whatever reason PTT works maybe once, and either gets stuck in XMIT for a couple seconds or it doesn't work at all. If it does work, it does so only once and will not respond to further button presses.

Any suggestions as to how to get this working?

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  • RE: PTT by Roger B. on Thursday October 15th 2009, 23:37
    • RE: PTT by Roger B. on Friday October 16th 2009, 1:06

by Øyvind on Sunday August 9th 2009, 10:59
Wine 1.2.27 now includes the gsm codec, but it didn't work for me atleast. I got it to work with the old method, by replacing the msgsm32.acm file with one from my windows installations and adding it as a dll override.

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  • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 10th 2009, 10:48
    • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 10th 2009, 11:11
      • RE: by Daniel on Monday August 10th 2009, 11:21
        • RE: by Øyvind on Monday August 10th 2009, 13:13
      • RE: by Darth Buh on Monday August 10th 2009, 17:35
  • RE: by Julian Ospald on Monday August 10th 2009, 18:39
    • RE: by Julian Ospald on Thursday August 13th 2009, 9:17
  • RE: by Daniel on Wednesday October 14th 2009, 3:35
Msgsm32.acm
by Iksf on Saturday August 1st 2009, 17:00
Filefront didnt have it for me and the other site is a nightmare so i put it on mediafire for people who wanna download this without a torrent of jusk mail etc

www.mediafire.com/?htlyjmooypm

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WINEPREFIX
by Eric Work on Tuesday July 28th 2009, 0:45
I noticed that when vent and the game (Wc3 or WoW for example) are installed into the same WINEPREFIX the hotkey works fine. A wine window from the same instance needs to have focus for the hotkey to work.

To share a vent install between 2 prefixes, in the case ~/.wine-wow and ~/.wine-wc3, I made a symlink from the actual vent install (~/.wine-wow) to the target prefix (~/.wine-wc3). "ln -s ~/.wine-wow/drive_c/Program Files/Ventrillo" from within the ~/.wine-wc3/drive_c/Program Files directory. Then run vent as WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-wc3 wine Ventrillo.exe. This is from memory so the details are not exact.

You can create duplicate Ventrillo shortcuts to make this easier.

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by Jeff on Sunday July 26th 2009, 9:40
PTT will work when any Wine Window is selected--at least for me. Non-Wine Windows however do not work unless you use the script.

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  • RE: by Jeff on Sunday July 26th 2009, 9:41
1.1.22
by vhaarr on Wednesday May 27th 2009, 20:24
Anyone else getting a crash on startup of Ventrilo 3.0.x with WINE 1.1.22?

I promptly degraded to 1.1.21, so I didn't get any stderr output or anything.

If it's not resolved in 1.1.23, I'll probably get and post some debug information then.

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  • RE: 1.1.22 by Robert Andersson on Thursday May 28th 2009, 16:04
    • RE: 1.1.22 by vhaarr on Friday May 29th 2009, 8:23
PTT listed as broken?
by Andrew on Wednesday May 6th 2009, 15:31
PTT (push-to-talk) is listed as broken, but it works just fine for me with no extra hacks or workarounds.
Using WoW and Vent.

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Had a similar problem, solved
by VF on Friday April 24th 2009, 23:14
I had an odd issue where only certain people would hear me garbled on speex servers (GSM was fine). It turns out they can fix it on their end by turning Voice amplifiers to 0.

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How I got it working.
by smitty on Tuesday April 21st 2009, 17:35
This is for wine ver. 1.1.9

winecfg
1a) audio tab
1b) ALSA Driver -- checked
Hardware Acceleration -- Full
Default Sample Rate: -- 44100
Default Bits Per Sample: -- 16
Driver Emulation -- unchecked

Ventrilo Setup
2a) Voice tab
2b) Enable outgoing voice Comms -- checked
Use Push To Talk Hotkey -- checked
Use Direct Input to detect Hotkey -- Unchecked
Discard Hotkey -- unchecked
Play Key Clicks -- checked
Use Direct Sound (Output device) -- checked
Use Direct Sound (Input device) -- unchecked
3a) Binds tab
3b) Use DirectSound -- unchecked
4a) Speech tab
4b) Use DirectSound -- unchecked

5a) Now you must setup the correct windows drivers to get GSM and all that good stuff. You will need to copy them from your ia32 comptiblity libraries, or an existing windows install somewhere, or download them from the M$ website. They are:

msgsm32.acm
tssoft32.acm
tsd32.dll
lhacm.acm

You will find them in windows at C:\\windows\system32. Copy those files to your /.wine/drive_c/windows/system folder. Yes, thats right, you are going to copy them to your wine drive system folder... Not system32 folder.

5b) Now for the system.ini change. Go to your /.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini and open that up. You are going to write in the following:

MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm
MSACM.trspch=tssoft32.acm
MSACM.lhacm=lhacm.acm

When your done with that, save it and close. Your pretty much home free now! Setup a shortcut for ventrilo on your desktop if you like or if wine didnt create one for you already like it did for me. Otherwise a shortcut should have been created in your KDE menu somewhere. Happy voice chatting

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Push-To-Talk Works?
by Jeff on Wednesday April 15th 2009, 23:47
i'm using Wine 1.1.19 and it seems the Ventrilo push to talk key works (not using DirectInput). I haven't done extensive testing; just while sitting at the WoW login screen. Just an observation.

I couldn't figure out how to get the push to talk key to work for quite some time. It was breaking in ALSA. I could talk for about 2 seconds before it died. But when I switched to OpenSound everything magically worked. Using aoss/padsp (on Ubuntu) I'm able to talk in Vent while still playing games on the main speakers. It's got some issues but overall it works fairly well.

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Spux - Linux Ventrilo Client
by Michael Sierks on Tuesday April 14th 2009, 10:09
We currently have a few talented developers helping with Spux. But we need more. If interested go to www.spuxproject.net or email me at msierks@sierkstech.net or pop by IRC on irc.freenode.net on the channel #spux. We need you to help make Spux a success.

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Ventrilo Client for Linux
by Michael Sierks on Wednesday April 1st 2009, 20:35
Having trouble getting Ventrilo working with wine ? Join the development to to bring a native client to Linux. Visit www.spuxproject.net or contact me at msierks@sierkstech.net to help.

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GSM codec does not work with Wine version 1.1.15
by Malcolm Lalkaka on Saturday February 21st 2009, 15:30
The HOWTO posted above was working just fine with Wine version 1.1.14 and before. But I just updated to Wine 1.1.15, and now, I get the message "Codec initialization failed: Unable to open codec stream. Code = 512" whenever I try to connect to a room that uses the GSM codec. I get the same message when I try press the "Monitor" and "Test" buttons with the "GSM 6.10" codec selected.

I'm using Ventrilo 3.0.4. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have already double-checked that the msgsm32.acm is in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system, and that I have the line "MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm" in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini.

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Using wine-1.1.15, Mic will not playback!!!
by Jordan on Friday February 20th 2009, 2:09
My mics detected with "monitor" in Ventrilo setup but the audio recording wont replay with "test".
Very annoying.

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by ManiaC on Wednesday February 18th 2009, 2:49
i currently have problem installing . Having installed with winetricks msi2 the windows isntall
when i try to isntall it says that msi is not present and that i should isntall it
.NET 2 is also installed but i get no message for this one just ms installer . Anyone know how to bypass this?

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"If you desire TTS, download and install �SpeechSDK51.exe. "
by Robert on Thursday February 12th 2009, 11:46
Dead link, you can get that program from here

www.inovani.no/DemosDownload.htm

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Everything but speex
by Roger on Tuesday January 27th 2009, 11:18
Well i can get vent working perfectly doing everything for me. If the server is using GSM my in and out sound is very clear.

However, my guild has mac users so we have to use Speex.

When i try to use speex they say i sound very garbled and static.

I have tried all different kinds of settings for both vent and wine and nothing seems to work. Has anyone found a fix for this kind of problem.

BTW Vent is v3.0.4

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Installation issues with recent Wine
by Paul Hampson on Tuesday January 6th 2009, 1:31
In recent Wine, I'd been failing to install Ventrilo getting a failure:
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1627

This error was caused for me by not having a .NET installation. Installing .NET 2.0 with winetricks solved it.

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Push to talk programs.
by Anders Aa. on Friday December 5th 2008, 13:49
I use ventrilo and push to talk, and it works fine, but with every program I've used since xorg 1.5 (and the old ventriloctrl stopped working) when I push my push to talk key, I loose all keyboard input.

For example I press my push to talk button, I have to let go of it in order to type something.

This is easily reproducable in every program I've tried, open a text editor, hold down push to talk (capslock in my case, could that affect it?) and try to write something, nothing will show up.

Are there any programs to forward the hotkey to ventrilo, that does not have this (huge) limitation?

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PTT script
by Nate on Friday December 5th 2008, 0:19
I hadn't noticed until now that John Hanely had already made a script to monitor X input and I made one too using Python.

ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6304758&postcount=299

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by Jamie Nadeau on Tuesday December 2nd 2008, 21:41
For those of you that the push to talk de-registers and no longer works... Install the windows 9x(98) version it works perfectly!

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Ventinux
by Michael Sierks on Tuesday November 18th 2008, 15:32
If you wish to view current progress go to www.ventinux.net.

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by jwscott on Tuesday November 18th 2008, 3:40
The short of it is I am trying to get my mic and my sound to work together. The mic is a USB mic, and my sound card is an internal card creative labs Xfi. If I use Alsa drivers, then I get sound in my games and I can hear ventrilo, but no mic. If I use OOS drivers, I can hear sound and use the mic in ventrilo, but I get no sound from my games.

The link you provided that takes you to the World of Warcraft forum is basically what I am looking for, but I have an issue Im hoping someone can help me with. I do not have a .asoundrc file as described in this HOWTO. The only asoundrc file I have is this:

/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.17/asoundrc.txt

Is this the same file? It looks like it might be related considering the content, but it is not located as ~/.asoundrc. And changes I made to this file didn't make things work.

If anyone knows any easier way to get me functioning, I am open to suggestions.


Fedora 9
Wine 1.5
USB logitech quickcam mic
creative labs internal XFI Xtreme gamer

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  • RE: by jwscott on Tuesday November 18th 2008, 13:12
    • RE: by John Hanely on Tuesday November 18th 2008, 21:12
New push-to-talk key listener
by John Hanely on Friday November 14th 2008, 10:34
Hi guys. I got tired of ventriloctrl, so I wrote my own (in perl).
It uses normal X input rather than the event interface, so there are no kernel options or device file permissions to configure. It can be activated/deactivated with a keyboard shortcut, and sends in the same key it captures.

So for example:
1) Configure your desktop manager to launch keylistener.pl when CTRL+` is pressed.
2) Start Ventrilo
3) With the Ventrilo window in focus, press CTRL+`
A small window titled 'Press a Key' will appear.
4) Tap the key you want to capture (right CTRL for me) a few times until the 'Press a Key' window closes.
The Ventrilo window's title will change to: Ventrilo (Key R_Control Captured)
5) Make sure Ventrilo is configured to use that same key for push-to-talk.
6) Use and Enjoy.
7) If you want to uncapture the key, activate your keyboard shortcut again (CTRL+`)
The Ventrilo window title will return to normal.

It requires the following perl modules installed:
X11::GUITest
X11::Protocol
X11::Keyboard

They can all be installed with cpan. As root, run:
cpan -fi X11::Keyboard X11::Protocol X11::GUITest


I haven't tested this extensively, so use at your own risk.
www.splitreflection.com/~calin/keylistener.pl

-John

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Ventrilo Linux Client
by Michael Sierks on Monday November 3rd 2008, 9:49
Since there is no Linux Ventrilo client and the wine compatibility is poor. A Ventrilo Linux Client is in the works and a development release should be available within a couple of months. Unfortunately it will not be released by the makers of Ventrilo but by me. I have grown tired of waiting on the makers of Ventrilo so I have taken it upon myself to create my own client.

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Getting microphone to work
by David Fisher on Sunday November 2nd 2008, 22:01
Wanted to post my solution to getting the mic to work on Ubuntu 8.10, since I had to search all over to get it to work right.

Run winecfg with:
`padsp winecfg`

then selecting OSS driver. It should show "PulseAudio Virtual OSS" as the wave in and wave out devices.

Then running vent with:
`padsp wine Ventrilo.exe`

And selecting "Use Direct Sound" for both input and output.

Then I have to run any other windows game with (for example):
`padsp wine war3.exe`

for them to play nice and both work. A bit awkward, but it gets the job done.

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vent crashes on install
by dan on Monday October 13th 2008, 18:24
I get this on the console when I try to install Ventrilo 3.0.1 on wine 1.1.6 . Anyone experiencing something similar?

dan@desktop:~/vent$ WINEPREFIX=/home/dan/.wine_steam wine ventrilo-3.0.1-Windows-i386.exe
fixme:sfc:SfcIsKeyProtected ((nil), (null)) stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"MsiInstaller"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x000003f5,(nil),0x0007,0x00000000,0x33f974,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"=====================================================\r\nException code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION\r\nFunction: 0x0\r\n=====================================================\r\n\r\nRegisters:\r\nEAX:00000000 EBX:76497BBF ECX:0033F9B8 EDX:00000031 ESI:0033FC40 EDI:0013F168\r\nCS:EIP:0073:00000000 "...
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L""
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
dan@desktop:~/vent$

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  • hmm by dan on Tuesday October 14th 2008, 22:03
AFK
by Andrew on Wednesday October 1st 2008, 20:54
Anyone have any ideas on how to make AFK checking work properly?

I'm using ventriloctrl to talk on ventrilo in X, but if I'm not talking I get sent to the AFK channel. On windows it checks for AFK based on mouse movements, but of course not in X.

I'm guessing the easiest way would be some sort of modification to ventriloctrl. Has anyone done anything in this direction?

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Wine locks up
by Simon Philipp on Monday September 22nd 2008, 13:18
Wine seems to lock up in Wine 1.1.5.

It doesn't respond to PTT or Voice Activation.

It also locks up when i use the "monitor" or "test" function in Setup.

Any ideas?

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Nevermind.
by Milan Troller on Monday August 11th 2008, 12:48
Nevermind. I had other version than Ventrilo on server. Not wine issue.

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Problems with connectiong to server
by Milan Troller on Sunday August 10th 2008, 13:48
I was been trying to use Ventrilo, but after I set server settings, I am still not able to connect. There is the message "MSG: Contacting server." but nothing follows. When I click on the Connect button, nothing happens, only the button changes to Disconnect, and setup button fades. No new message appears, nothing new in console...
This stuff is being dumped into console multiple times after start. I am not sure if it is the problem:
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} could be created for context 0x17
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} not registered

Please help.

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Another link to msgsm32.acm. Tested, and works.
by Mauno on Friday August 8th 2008, 19:10
files.filefront.com/msgsm32acm/;4475049;/fileinfo.html

Downloading the file from here is much easier and faster than from driverguide.com. Care to replace the original link in the HOWTO, with the one provided above ?

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Little update
by Alex Barker on Thursday July 31st 2008, 1:27
I have hacked together an update to the original code useing xevie instead of trying to sniff key events. I couldnt get a hold of Toni "hifi" Spets as his email address no longer exists? Anyway i re-upload this thing with the changes. Read the readme and change log for info/contact public.callutheran.edu/~abarker/ventriloctrl-0.4.tar.gz sf.net project anyone?

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Missing codec and I cant hear anyone.
by Max W on Saturday July 26th 2008, 23:52
Ok. I am still getting errors about GSM 6.10 does this have anything to do with the how-to or is it just my computer?

I have searched for this codec all over google and I am always getting corrupt files or broken links.

If the remedy for this problem is to download please give me the link of where I can download it and how do i instal it.


Thanks,
Max

Oh and I cant hear anyone talk in Vent thats a problem too.

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No channels when connected to server. Wine 1.1.1, 1.1.0 & 0.9.61 all tried.
by Adam on Tuesday July 15th 2008, 23:03
I seem to be able to connect fine to the server, but I can't see any channels. I do see myself, the 'A' by my name for my admin, and also my current ping. I am also seen by people as being connected, and can be moved about to different channels, but I cannot hear anyone talking. I am also unable to transmit. I'm on Slackware 12.1 full install. I also had exactly the same problem with versions 1.1.0 and 0.9.61. I've used alien's packages from Slackware.com, and also the packages from sourceforge, I've even compiled from source.

To test if it was maybe slackware or a hardware problem, I made a virtual machine on Windows XP with Unbuntu and tried to get ventrilo working on there. I had exactly the same issue.

Could this be some kind of special configuration I need to do to get this to work? I followed the HOWTO to the letter.

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by Jonny Power on Sunday July 13th 2008, 19:55
Have you tried recompiling the source?

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by Jonny Power on Saturday July 12th 2008, 12:53
That hack is so awesome - works after such a tiny amount of effort.

That link to the wow forums about 2 sound cards is also extremely useful, it should be added to the install how to.

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  • RE: by Richard on Sunday July 13th 2008, 18:44
ventrilo 100% cpu again
by Andrew on Thursday July 10th 2008, 14:48
Ventrilo will usually, but not always, hit 100% CPU usage after using it for some time. At that point, mic input ceases to work, though I can still hear others. The application itself won't quit when closed once this happens, though killing it with signal 15 or 9 does work. I'm using Wine 1.0 with an Audigy 4 on an AMD64 system. Another AMD64 system with an Audigy 2 exhibits the same problem. I've tried all variety of winecfg audio settings to no avail.
What sort of information can I supply or what sort of testing can I do to determine whether this is a Wine problem or not? Audio in other applications continues to work while Vent freaks out.

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No Mic - Please help
by Linubie on Tuesday July 8th 2008, 12:05
I try using ventrilo with gentoo 2008 under wine.

Any settings I tried I cant select the mic in the setup section under mux. Btw. TS is running so the microphone is usable.


As soon as I choose a mixer (Audigy 4 [SB0610]) I receive this error

VoiceCommMixerStart: Invalid voice mux selection. (-1)

I tried booth alsa and oss with and without software emulation.

I am using an Audigy 4, here is my alsa / oss config

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1


# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1


# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

Maybe someone has a hint for me how to solve this.

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Latest Wine and Output
by Alex Boag-Munroe on Thursday June 19th 2008, 15:12
Inputs work fine no problem, but the last couple of builds I've only been able to choose my on board sound as the output device.

If I install wine 0.9.91 (random older version I tried) it works no problem.

I can choose from 3 out of 3 input devices, I can only choose one of them for output. winecfg sees all the devices fine.

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Soundblaster Audigy SB0570
by Zeus on Wednesday June 18th 2008, 20:40
This model, which I believe is termed Soundblaster Audigy SE has serious issues with getting Ventrilo running. If you have this card, yank it and use your on-board audio if you have it. I had many problems with other applications while in Ubuntu.

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Btnx + Mouse
by Tony on Monday May 26th 2008, 23:30
I know that it is stated in the top that mouse binding does not work.
However, I have a Logitech G5, and am using btnx to get the extra buttons to function as whatever I want.

I set up my thumb button to be Insert on the keyboard, and when I try to set PTT on Vent to use Insert, I can use the mouse button to set it, but then when I actually try PTT, nothing happens. Since it seems like it is quite close to working, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas I could try.

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Ventrilo won't start
by Andy on Saturday May 17th 2008, 12:18
wine 1.0rc1

fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on Logitech USB Headset, disabling mixer
- snip -
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {a910187f-0c7a-45ac-92cc-59edafb77b53} could be created for context 0x17

at which point it hangs. forever. If I try to start ventrilo again, it says "ventrilo is already running."

Experienced this problem with 9.61, not with 9.59.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Those who cannot get recording working
by Andrew on Saturday May 10th 2008, 18:58
Those who have USB mics, multiple sound cards, etc. see this thread:
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2200220013&sid=1

The best thing to do is get a program like Audacity and test all the mic settings in there to find whether your input works at all. Once it does, you can follow the above guide accordingly.

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MIC isn't recording
by fired on Thursday April 24th 2008, 0:08
Ok i've read like 100 fixes for different people, now I can hear out the headset me talking in the mic, however when I go to use VEntrillo I can't record and my team hear me. PLEASE HELP! :(

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Help mic doesn't work
by fired on Wednesday April 23rd 2008, 2:17
I have everything working but mic, I followed instructions. Please advise. I can't select anything in MUX in vent settings. Any advice?

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Works great with alsa
by Intangir on Sunday April 20th 2008, 2:47
only problem is if i put the rest of the PC under any larger load

like loading a game
or opening a browser (especially with flash) vent doesnt let me talk right anymore, my outbound is all garbled or doesnt work at all

i have to disconnect and reconnect to fix it

other than that regular annoyance it works fine

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PTT Broken
by Geoff on Wednesday April 9th 2008, 8:40
With the latest version of ventrilo and wine 0.9.58 Push to Talk is broken for me on Gutsy 7.10.

I can push the hotkey and it will work once if the window is selected... if I hold the hotkey for more than 1 second it locks in the "green speaker broadcasting state" although no voice is actually going out after that first second.

If I hold the hotkey for a split second it will work and broadcast voice for that split second, but then pressing the hotkey again yeilds absolutely no result. only opening and closing the setup dialogue brings me back to the state where I get the problems listed in the paragraph above.

the PTT hack/script doesn't work at all.

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vent 100% cpu
by Andrew on Friday April 4th 2008, 13:13
No clue if this is a Wine issue or a vent issue, but fairly reliably, ventrilo will peg 100% CPU and sit there in deadlock until killed. Other apps (like WoW) continue working fine, though slower because the CPU is pegged. This usually occurs after running fine for a while. I'm using DirectSound for output, but not for input.
Anyone else having this problem?

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Help!!
by Todd Martin on Tuesday March 25th 2008, 15:53
Hey everyone. I have the latest wine and the latest vent, I can connect to servers and hear people fine over my desktops speakers, I can not however hear them via my headset (usb) nor can I talk to them via the headset (also usb, same set).

I have PTT enabled and I can hear the "beep" when I push my key just fine, but no voice goes out. I've tried every possible variation, enablding and disabling direct sound etc. Just can't get it working. Hope someone has some advice for me, really annoying not being able to talk. Thanks all!

-todd

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  • RE: Help!! by Andrew on Thursday April 3rd 2008, 13:56
    • RE: Help!! by Todd Martin on Thursday April 3rd 2008, 16:30
      • RE: Help!! by Andrew on Thursday April 3rd 2008, 16:58
        • RE: Help!! by Todd Martin on Thursday April 3rd 2008, 17:37
          • RE: Help!! by Andrew on Friday April 4th 2008, 13:10
actkbd for hotkey
by memeyou on Tuesday March 25th 2008, 10:15
Try sending the false key event with X and actkbd. It should support multiple users/keyboards.

I removed the file io/loop from ventriloctrl.c and set my favorite key, XK_grave. It now just takes and send the key status and closes. I then saved it in /usr/bin.

Install actkbd - I used the udev.rules file to run it. Be sure to edit this file before using. For my config, I used "41:key::ventriloctrl 1&" and "41:key::ventriloctrl 0&". 41 is my grave key.

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Overlay
by William on Thursday March 20th 2008, 6:25
So, I use an unofficial third party overlay. It works fine, but can't pick up the names of passworded channels properly it seems.

Anyone gotten the "official" overlay working? The one that comes with Ventrilo? It keeps saying my video card doesn't have the required functionality.

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  • RE: Overlay by Eric Sandall on Saturday November 1st 2008, 15:25
Works Great!
by Steven Fowler on Sunday December 30th 2007, 15:00
I get errors but in the long run, everything seems to be working. I don't have a hack to make it work outside of the window, but when running other applications in Wine, those work for the push to talk hotkey.

Under voice I have all the boxes on the left checked. I use a hotkey. I use direct sound for output and the default sound device. I don't use direct sound for input and I use a USB Mixer (I have a logitec USB microphone).

The harware input mixer I use is also the USB Mixer.

Nothing seems to fail, and nobody has issues hearing me.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon with my "Enable Software Sound Mixing" turned off.

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Works in Ubuntu 7.10
by Adam D on Sunday December 16th 2007, 18:08
Installed newest Vent (3.0.1) in wine 0.9.51 with Ubuntu 7.10 and it seems to work relatively well. I use ALSA and acceleration on Full (emulation checked) and no virtual desktop.

Direct-Sound enabled for both input and ouput, direct input to detect hotkey disabled.

Push-to-talk works outside Ventrilo's window with the Ventrilo control hack. Text-to-speech doesn't work at all in Ventrilo (it can see the libraries after installing the SDK and copying DLLs, but TTS still doesn't work).

I submitted a test, and it was in queue for a while, but now I have nothing in my queue and the test isn't there, so I am left wondering what happened to it?

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First time it works flawlessly for me.
by Alexander Lindskog on Wednesday December 12th 2007, 7:44
Hi guys.

I managed to get Vent running without any of the problems I used to have (no ALSA, no Push-to-talk). I'm positive it has something to do with the latest wine update but in case this helps you here are the settings I used. (all other combinations failed to work :) )

Wine 0.9.50

Winecfg:
-Audio:
--ALSA
--Hardware acceleration: Full
--Driver emulation: Checked

Vent:
Output device: Default DirectSound device
-Use Direct Sound: Checked

Input device: Default wave mappe
-Use Direct Sound: Not checked

Use Direct Input to detect Hotkey: Not checked

I'll send in a screen shot of both panels.

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