AutoGK 2,27 on Linux thru WINE???

[tomskinator]

hey all
ive just installed videolinux .01 on my comp coz windows was having some major issues which i wont go into (coz i dont have all day!!)
now, i am ABSOLUTLEY over the moon with this linux (tried ubuntu b4, but this is soooo much better!!), but i cant seem to get autogk to install.....
i start it by opening it with wine, and it just freezes on the blue install screen....
ive tried this a few times and its always the same.... can anyone help me with this???

[TuRiSOft]

1st thing : open a console and call "winecfg" ;
2nd : in tab "graphics" select "Emulate a Virtual Desktop" not less than 800x600 ;
3rd : install Autogk (I did so , unfortunately it doesn't work , missing libraries I think ) !!!
Good Luck !!!

[tomskinator]

thanks mate....
setting a virtual desktop worked, but autogk doesnt run properly and it isnt able to parse ifo's....
oh well, guess im going to have to have a windows install on my pc aswell (autogk is just too good!)....

[LocalH]

You could try a virtualization solution such as VMWare, which will at least save you from having to repartition your drive, assuming that you have enough hard drive space to hold a disk image containing the system and the files you'll be dealing with.

[TuRiSOft]

thanks mate....
setting a virtual desktop worked, but autogk doesnt run properly and it isnt able to parse ifo's....
oh well, guess im going to have to have a windows install on my pc aswell (autogk is just too good!)....


I'm on something... I think AutoGK parses IFO's thru vstrip_ifo.exe in /tools dir. All executables there must be run with wineconsole instead of wine , so we have to tell autogk this. The point now is : How ?
The same thing is needed for lame , azid and normalize !!!

[Lokean]

Instead of that, you could also try one of the native Linux programs that does more or less the same, such as DVDrip.

[TuRiSOft]

@Lokean :
I'm able to use mencoder from the command line and some of the Guis for it , I also have installed DVDRip , but I found AutoGK to be better , as far as it can calculate the optimal resolution for the output file , with the comptest.

Suggestions on how to tweak wine to make it open certain files with "wineconsole" instead of "wine " ?

[shevegen]

Sounds advanced :)
No idea but would love to know

[Eri2]

Look at this ->
http://forum.gleitz.info/showthread.php?t=32571

[bmnot]

Bleh, forum requires you to wait 5 days before posting. Luckily BugMeNot exists :)

All right, this thread may be a bit old, but it comes up in a search for Autogk Wine in google, and I just got my AutoGK to work in wine, so I thought I'd share.

This is what I did. Not all these steps may be necessary, I don't know, I'm just telling you how I got it to work.

Run "winecfg" and change:

Graphics tab: Emulate a virtual desktop, at least 800x600
Direct3D Vertex Shader Support none (I don't have a graphics card in this machine anyways)

Audio Tab: Hardware Acceleration: Emulation
Check driver emulation.

Applications tab: Windows Version Windows XP

Libraries (I think this is the important one) tab

Add the following overrides:
mfc42u, msvcrt, msvfw32, vorbis

Now, I downloaded and installed AutoGK on this machine. Then, I copied the DLL's "mfc42u, msvcrt, msvfw32" from a windows machine's system32 directory to the WINE system32 directory. I also named msvcrt.dll MSVCRT.DLL. Probably not necessary, but I know linux is case sensitive (although WINE probably isn't) and the virtualdub error message had a capital msvcrt.

Next, I copied vorbis.dll from the autogk\virtualdubmod directory to the windows\system32 directory. Probably not necessary, but I did it.

Then, I typed "wine AutoGK.exe" in the AutoGK directory, and it worked.


Troubleshooting:
If the installer doens't come up (just a blue screen), make sure you have the graphics resolution at least 800x600 in the graphics tab of winecfg

If trying to encode a movie fails on the audio portion (Demuxing, decoding, normalizing, encoding happens in about a second, then fails) it is probably your virtualdub. I fixed this by copying a new msvcrt.dll over to wine, and the vorbis.dll. Try manually running "wine autogk/tools/virtualdubmod.exe" and see if virtualdub comes up. If it doesn't, fix whatever it complains about.


That's it. I know it wasn't well written, but hopefully it helps someone out there.