Get AutoGK working under Wine

[Amnon82]

medo of the german doom9-forum found a way to run AutoGK under Linux. He uses Wine for it. His post is not so informative. Hope you get it working with this less information. When I've more time, I'll write a proper guide.

What I can readout of his post is this:

Configure Wine thru "winecfg". Use this settings:

Applications
__________
Should be set to Windows 2000. WinXP maybe works.

Audio
_____
Check ALSA
Check OSS
Direct Sound Hardware Acceleration = emulation

Graphics
_______
Check Enable desktop double buffering
Check Allow the window manager to control the windows
Check Emulate a virtual desktop (800x600)
Change Vertex Shader Support to "emulated"
Allow Pixel Shader can be left checked

Download followed DLLs and copy them into the "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"-folder:

"mfc42u"="native"
"msvcrt"="native"
"msvfw32"="native"

DLLs must be integrated into the winecfg-settings. Use the Libraries-tab for that. www.dll-files.com (http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml)

For the moment the preview won't work, but he works on that.

He also uploaded some screenshots to Rapideshare (7 MB) (http://rapidshare.com/files/10078355/Auto_GK_Screenshots.tar.gz).

[Amnon82]

medo wrote a new script to install wmp6.4. You can download it from here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/8478246/7a8973f6/AutoGKtar.html
Mirror (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/files/AutoGK.tar.gz)

Here some instructions from medo:

The script loads around 50 mb from the internet and installs followed:

windows media player6
autogk
k-lite codec pack
dvd decrypter

At the installation of k-lite codec pack press <No> at the message.

The script installs all into "home/<your username>/AutoGK"
and adds a launcher to "home/<your username>/bin".

After Installation the script calls winecfg.

Normally the script detects your drives and sets the screenshot resolution of the virtual desktop to 800x600.

You can edit the script before using it.
My self I didn't test the script, even didn't download it.
I'll do that, when I've more time.
Let me know if it works.

[gardar]

I tried to run this script.... It runs and installs everything...
But when I try to open autogk it says that I don't have any codecs installed....
However if I try to open the xvid encoder and decoder setting I can play with it, so it seems that xvid is installed... now how can I get autogk to see that?
I'm a pretty much wine noob so I can't figure out myself whats wrong...
Maby xvid is missing from the registry and that's why autogk can't see it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Amnon82]

AutoGK isn't easy to start. Seems you want to start AutoGK from the panel. You must first setup a prefix.

Medo posted me this:

cd ~/AutoGK/drive_c/Program\ Files/AutoGK
WINEPREFIX=~/AutoGK wine ~/AutoGK/drive_c/Program\ Files/AutoGK/AutoGK.exe

Here it's why:

WINEPREFIX

By default Windows applications are installed in /home/user/.wine. If you want to install your application in a different directory then you must use the WINEPREFIX variable.
If you want your application to be installed in /home/user/appname you must first create the directory:
$ mkdir appname
Now type the following command:
$ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/appname" wineprefixcreate
This will create a directory called /home/user/appname. In this directory you will find a fake Windows drive and the Wine configuration files system.reg and user.reg.
Now type $ WINEPREFIX="appname" wine setup.exe to install the application.
If your application is installed in /home/user/appname/drive_c/Program Files/app/appname.exe you can run it by typing:
$ WINEPREFIX="/home/user/appname" wine ~/appname/drive_c/Program\ Files/app/appname.exe

[gardar]

ok, autogk successfully opened by using wineprefix.... but now when I try to encode I get an error from virtualdub.

Avisynth open failture:
DirectShowSource: Could not open as audio or video.

Video returned: DirectShowSource couldn't open file: z:/link/to/file
Error: 0x80040207"

Audio returned: DirectShowSource couldn't open file: z:/link/to/file
Error: 0x80040207"

(z:/link/to/file avs, line 7)

where z:/link/to/file is the link to my file (was trying a simple xvid re-encode)

Any idea what's wrong?

[Amnon82]

Did you installed an xvid-codec in wine? If not do it.

[gardar]

Did you installed an xvid-codec in wine? If not do it.

It got installed by the script.... So yea, it's supposed to be installed.

[Amnon82]

z:/link/to/file avs, line 7

check the avs-file.

[xxxyzzzz]

Not wanting to steal the thread, but someone posted a guide about how to get RipIt4Me and AutoGK working in Linux:
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=77416

They cited this page