BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

protonopen appid 294810Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2

ValveSoftware/Proton#6922 · opened 2023-07-13 by unit73e · updated 2023-07-13 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

Uunit73e 2023-07-13 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extended
Steam AppID of the game: 294810

System Information

GPU: RX 6600
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 23.1.3
Kernel version: 6.4.3-zen
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/unit73e/ec35c7ee9f0780361d015d89e4c4de45
Proton version: 8.0-2

I confirm:

[x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
[x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-294810.log

Symptoms

Videos in story mode don't play, only the intro.

Reproduction

There are two ways:

Start Calamity Trigger story mode. The video does not play.
Go to the gallery section and try playing a video.

Here is what happens:
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Debug

What I found so far:

The videos can be found in data/Movie of the installation directory.
The sound codec is wmav2 and the video codec is wmv3 for all videos, so gstreamer needs the libav plugin.
The intro video plays correctly, but gallery videos don't play at all, despite having the same codecs.
All videos play with ProtonGE8-6, but GE the sound does not work.
Proton includes gstreamer libraries so it's not related to the OS.
There's some kind of registry change in compatdata/294810/gstreamer-1.0.
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger didn't seem to have the same problem.
Found out not all story mode videos fail, only some.

Uunit73e 2023-07-13 github

Since not all videos fail I'm posting some additional information:

This video does not play:

$ ffmpeg -i bbctstory00.wmv
...
Input #0, asf, from 'bbctstory00.wmv':
  Metadata:
    WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
    DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP
    WMFSDKVersion   : 12.0.7601.17514
    IsVBR           : 0
  Duration: 00:05:10.10, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 7175 kb/s
  Stream #0:0(jpn): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 192 kb/s
  Stream #0:1(jpn): Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 1280x768, 8000 kb/s, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1k tbn

This video plays:

$ ffmpeg -i bb15story00.wmv 
...
Input #0, asf, from 'bb15story00.wmv':
  Metadata:
    WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
    DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP@HL
    NumberOfFrames  : 1322
    WMFSDKVersion   : 11.0.5721.5265
    IsVBR           : 0
  Duration: 00:00:22.52, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 6148 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 192 kb/s
  Stream #0:1: Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 1280x720, 8000 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1k tbn

The resolution is different, but the opening is also 1280x768 and that video works. I'll post which videos work and which don't when I finish the game.

Nothing extracted yet.