[How To]Configure DVD FAB HD DECRYPTER to run on Linux with Wine

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First off, get the latest versions of Wine and DVD Fab HD Decrypter.

Then, make sure Wine is installed and place the DVD Fab HD Decrypter file into your Home directory.

Then open a Terminal Window and enter:
wine DVDFabHDDecrypter4035Beta.exe
or whatever the name of your DVD Fab HD Decrypter install file is.

After DVD Fab HD Decrypter has been installed, do not have it run at the end of the install process. We need to install a dll and configure Wine first.

The dll you will need is mfc42.dll. This has to come from an install of Windows XP. To save you some time here is a link to download this file. Place the zip file in your home directory. Then Unzip and place it in .wine/drive_c/windows/system/.

unzip dll.zip -d ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system/

To configure Wine, what you will need to do is open winecfg and make it use your freshly installed dll. Click the Libraries tab, enter mfc42.dll in the New Override area, and click add. Then press Apply.


Now lets set up our DVD drive so it comes right up in DVD Fab HD Decrypter. To do this we need to choose the Drives section in winecfg and choose Advanced. Click the letter of the drive that is your DVD drive. Then set it's type to CD-ROM. Then click Apply and OK. Now lets create an icon in the Applications menu to run DVD Fab HD Decrypter.

To create an icon in your Applications menu type in the following command and then cut and past the Desktop Entry info into this new text file and save it.

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/dvdfabdecrypter.desktop


[Desktop Entry]
Name=DVD Fab HD Decrypter
Exec=wine ".wine/drive_c/Program Files/DVDFab HD Decrypter 4/DVDFabHDDecrypter.exe"
Icon=gnome-dev-cdrom.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;AudioVideo


Now you should be up and running. Just select the icon in your Sound and Video section of Applications and start backing up your DVD's.


Note: Some of the info provided was found at this website:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=132336

I have tested this method and disks decrypt fine. The gui rendering can be a little funky looking, but it functions.

[wildchild77]

Just couple of thougts on this if you already have Ripit4Me running on Wine you will already have the mfc42.dll. in place. The GUI does have a couple of issues, on my system it screws with the upper left corner of the task bar. Also the only way to switch between item on the option menu is a combination of the mouse and arrow keys.

This thread at CDfreaks may also be helpful
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f116/dvdfab-hddecrypter-linux-220283/

There is also this guide I put together for running a number of valuble DVD programs on Ubuntu 7.10 with Wine
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzer15pr/wildchildscustomcomputers2/id17.html

[mc2man]

you don't really need mfc42 for dvd fab though it doesn't hurt to have for some other progs. Probably be of better use in system32 folder. The settings thing is simpler than I first thought - mouse click on left box to move focus off of right box and then arrow bottom down twice to change language - then your good to go

[shug33]

I have a problem: can't get RipIt4Me v. 1.7.1.0 to run on Wine (latest downloaded yesterday) under Ubuntu 7.10. It won't even try to start.

These are running fine in same installation:
DVDShrink
DVDdecrypter
ImgBurn
DVD Fab HD Decrypter

I copied from my working Win XP SP2 installation all the dll's listed by Wildchild in his instructions, including mfc42.dll and 8 others. Added msvcrt.dll when run command failed and named it.

If I right click the RipIt4Me.exe and select "Open with Wine" nothing happens at all.

If in Terminal I enter $wine RipIt4Me.exe
It replies: file not found in /System32 :eek:
If I enter the entire path, pages of error messages follow mentioning msvcrt.dll, which is definitely in the /System32 directory.
The same results if I put the RipIt4Me.exe into /System32.

I haven't made the phony /Temp file, because RI4M hasn't opened to look for a drive anyway.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[crimsom]

Re-install everything again and do the "phony /temp" thing.

You can follow this guide:

http://www.prtc.net/~laforey/ripit4melinux.html

Ripit4me works perfectly under WINE-Linux

[shug33]

Re-install everything again and do the "phony /temp" thing.

You can follow this guide:

http://www.prtc.net/~laforey/ripit4melinux.html

Ripit4me works perfectly under WINE-Linux

Thank you, Crimsom!:thanks:
That guide is an extremely good one.
I had to completely uninstall, including removing the complete .wine directory. Reinstalled wine, DVDdecrypter, DVDshrink, RI4M per guide including downloading the 2 linked dll's.

I found that RI4M would open, but would abort when the wizard mode was started, on "unimplemented function mfc42.dll.6880". I then replaced the downloaded mfc42.dll and msvcp60.dll with those copied from my Win XP Pro SP2 installation. Then RI4M miraculously opened and ripped 2 test DVDs just fine.

I then tried changed the OS in wine config to Win XP from Win NT4, and all seems to run OK still.

Will note this as "fixed" and move on to the next Linux challenge!

Thanks again for your encouragement.:)