Netflix Desktop requires ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Erich E. Hoover]

Without MS fonts the Netflix viewer fails with an error 1001 when loading. This kind of work around should not be necessary, likely there is a font substitution missing somewhere.

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

Without MS true type fonts (specifically, either Arial or Verdana) the Netflix Silverlight player will fail to load with "Error Code: 1001". By adding either one of these fonts (or installing all the MS TTF) then the player will load properly.

[Focht (focht)]

Hello folks,

also required for Evolve client, a .NET 4.0 application.

'winetricks corefonts' or running 'arial32.exe' from winetricks cache works around.

--- snip ---
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"PresentationFramework.Aero"
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000401,(nil),0x0001,0x00000000,0x3296b8,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Application: Updater.exe\nFramework Version: v4.0.30319\nDescription: The application requested process termination through System.Environment.FailFast(string message).\nMessage: Unrecoverable system error.\nStack:\n at System.Environment.FailFast(System.String)\n at MS.Internal.Invariant.FailFas"...
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
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Prerequisite: 'winetricks -q dotnet40' (32-bit WINEPREFIX)
Optional (the client will download/install on its own): 'winetricks -q msxml6'

Download: https://www.evolvehq.com/client

$ wine --version
wine-1.5.19-152-g7f88250

Regards

[Focht (focht)]

Hello folks,

also needed for Visual Studio 2010 (Express Edition).
Refining summary.

If your .NET 4.x apps exit with "System.Environment.FailFast" message it's most likely this bug.

$ wine --version
wine-1.5.20

Regards

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

Interesting note: Surprisingly, adding a font substitute (HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/Current Version/FontSubstitutes) _does not_ work around this issue.

[Focht (focht)]

Hello folks,

refining summary as this also applies to .NET Framework 3.x WPF applications.

Example WPF 3.5 app: "Adobe Digital Editions 2.0" (bug 33523)

'winetricks corefonts' or running 'arial32.exe' from winetricks cache works
around.

$ wine --version
wine-1.5.29-122-g865d53d

Regards

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 33527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

Hi Anastasius,

Would you mind trying this patch?:
https://raw.github.com/compholio/wine-compholio-daily/master/patches/10-Missing_Fonts/0001-fonts-Add-Liberation-Sans-SIL-Open-Font-License-as-a.patch

It has to be applied using "git apply" or "git am" unless you download the ttf file separately and put it in the wine "fonts" folder:
https://github.com/compholio/wine-compholio-daily/raw/master/patches/10-Missing_Fonts/arial.ttf

[Focht (focht)]

Hello Erich,

thanks, the patch definitely helps .NET 3.x/4.x apps (.NET runtime failure is gone).

I have to enable subpixel font smoothing though, otherwise text looks pretty ugly ('winetricks fontsmooth=rgb').

Regards

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #7)
> Hello Erich,
>
> thanks, the patch definitely helps .NET 3.x/4.x apps (.NET runtime failure
> is gone).
>
> I have to enable subpixel font smoothing though, otherwise text looks pretty
> ugly ('winetricks fontsmooth=rgb').
>
> Regards

Excellent, I'll see what I can do about getting it included :)

[huy tran (novo2809)]

you can install the fonts here

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer --quiet
$ sudo sh -c "echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | debconf-set-selections"

from: http://namhuy.net/1867/how-to-install-netflix-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-and-fedora.html

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

Hi huy, we actually made an improvement recently that will allow us to drop this dependency. I'll do what I can to make sure that that gets updated in the next release.

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 30433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 36503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 38386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Focht (focht)]

Hello folks,

adding another .NET (2.0) app for testing: Fronius Solar Configurator 3.3.1

Download: http://www.fronius.com/cps/rde/xbcr/fronius_international/SE_SW_Fronius_Solar.configurator_MULTI_85521_snapshot.zip

Also reported here: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25424

Actually the user had broken host dependencies and used Wine-Mono which obviously doesn't work for other reasons.

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Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Font 'Arial' cannot be found.
   at System.Drawing.FontFamily.CreateFontFamily(String name, FontCollection fontCollection)
   at System.Drawing.FontFamily..ctor(String name)
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.SingleInverterMatrixControl.ChangeMatrixSize(Int32 InNumHor, Int32 InNumVer, Int32 AddWidth)
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.SingleInverterMatrixControl..ctor()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.SingelInvPanel.InitializeComponent()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.SingelInvPanel..ctor()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.AnlageDim.InitializeComponent()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.AnlageDim..ctor()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.Form1.InitializeComponent()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.Form1..ctor()
   at KonfiguratorOberflaeche.Form1.Main(String[] args)
wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434f4d in thread 9 at address 0x7b845f21 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
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The app works fine after installing Arial font via 'winetricks -q corefonts' in 32-bit WINEPREFIX with .NET 2.0 Framework ('winetricks -q dotnet20').

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[!] [.net scan core] dotNetReactor detected!
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[mr.larch (bunglehead)]

I think System.Drawing is a gdiplus wrapper, so probably substitute should do? Or did you try that too?

[Focht (focht)]

Hello Nikolay,

--- quote ---
I think System.Drawing is a gdiplus wrapper, so probably substitute should do? Or did you try that too?
--- quote ---

well, a substitute would give you bug 32342 ;-)

Regards

[mr.larch (bunglehead)]

(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #14)
> Hello Nikolay,
>
> --- quote ---
> I think System.Drawing is a gdiplus wrapper, so probably substitute should
> do? Or did you try that too?
> --- quote ---
>
> well, a substitute would give you bug 32342 ;-)

I see, thanks. Is it an accurate description of what happens https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342#c18 ? I.e. does it fail checking what API returns or does it fail while accessing font NAME data directly? It's obviously a shortcut to distribute additional fonts, preferred way would be to use system font and make it look like what application expects.

>
> Regards

[Sebastian Lackner (slackner)]

(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #14)
> well, a substitute would give you bug 32342 ;-)

Have you verified that? I remember that Erich explained in an email on wine-devel about a year ago his results of the analysis, and he strongly suspected that at least Netflix directly reads the font files instead of using proper API calls. Unfortunately I can't find this mail right now. Unity3D is even more strict, and will only find the fonts if they are located in C:\\Windows\\Fonts, so I suspect there is also some manual loading step involved.

[Sebastian Lackner (slackner)]

I have just verified myself that fixing or working around bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 does not make the font substitution work with Netflix. Nevertheless it would still be nice if Erich could attach the analysis here for completeness, and to avoid mixing up the different issues / program expectations.

[mr.larch (bunglehead)]

By substitution I meant regular gdi32 substitution, not something Silverlight could possibly do. For WPF it won't work, as it doesn't support substitution, same as DirectWrite, but for latter we can at least have some workarounds in out implementation (which of course won't help if application will try to read font data directly). Regarding looking for fonts in windows/fonts, we can probably try to create some links for specific fonts on prefix update, or prefix creation. I don't know what Unity uses for font rendering, could as well not depend on system APIs.

[Erich E. Hoover (ehoover)]

(In reply to Sebastian Lackner from comment #17)
> I have just verified myself that fixing or working around bug
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 does not make the font
> substitution work with Netflix. Nevertheless it would still be nice if Erich
> could attach the analysis here for completeness, and to avoid mixing up the
> different issues / program expectations.

I know I wrote an email or had an IRC conversation about this, but I cannot find it for the life of me. I'll have to reproduce this work, but I do not have time to do that today. My memory is that it actually uses ReadFile and reads the raw font information straight out of the file.

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 39748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[mr.larch (bunglehead)]

For Evolve client there's an easy workaround that does not require specific font:

- install dotnet40;
- flip prefix version to windows 7;
- add replacement registry entry for Arial to Wine/Fonts/Replacements;
- run the client.

This way WPF font rendering goes through dwrite, and it works fine for me in current wine. I suspect this will help other applications too, and I believe it's a preferable way to handle this issue.

I'll retest other linked bugs when I have time, but regarding Netflix/Silverlight, what are the proper steps to test this combo?

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

This currently won't work for Silverlight/Netflix as the Playready DRM is broken if you set the windows version > XP.

[mr.larch (bunglehead)]

Ok, it will make sense to separate it from other affected applications then.

[Xerox-xerox2000x (xerox-xerox2000x)]

*** Bug 44909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Xerox-xerox2000x (xerox-xerox2000x)]

*** Bug 48728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 38741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***