Wine 20040716 and DVD Shrink 3.2 work like a charm

[jernst]

Hi everyone,

Just to tell you that there has been some improvements with DVD Shrink under wine lately.

I don't know for you, but before I've never been able to rip the DVD from within Shrink under Wine.

Now it works perfectly even if the DVD is encrypted.

I opened another bug about the file open dialog that still doesn't work and got some informations from Mr. Shrink so I think it'll continue to improve.

[madluther]

Does DVD Shrink require an ASPI layer ? the reason I ask is since moving to 2.6.x kernels, the scsi cd emulation for ATAPI drives is depreciated for burning, and I no longer build kernels with it as an option, but it did provide an ASPI layer for wine.

Regards Mad.

[jernst]

Yes it requires an ASPI layer (at least on win9x because when trying it with "Windows"=win98 it doesn't work and complains about an ASPI error.

After reading your message I'm currently recompiling my kernel without SCSI emulation and I'll tell you if it still works.

[jernst]

Wine works without problem even with scsi emulation for atapi disabled.

[madluther]

I know that wine will run fine with or without a scsi emulation, I wanted to know if DVD shrink requires it, I know for instance that DVD Decrypter requires an ASPI layer, without it, it wont 'see' the DVD drive . So to rephrase, does DVD shrink 'see' the DVD drive with no SCSI emulation ?

Regards Mad.

[boombastic]

I've got the same version of wine and DVDShrink but if i try to use DVDShrink it can't see any dvdrom(i've got a Pioneer DVD-R) and if i browse for the file i can only select the desktop folder.How can i configure wine with a grafial interface?

[jernst]

Originally posted by madluther
I know that wine will run fine with or without a scsi emulation, I wanted to know if DVD shrink requires it, I know for instance that DVD Decrypter requires an ASPI layer, without it, it wont 'see' the DVD drive . So to rephrase, does DVD shrink 'see' the DVD drive with no SCSI emulation ?

Regards Mad.

Yes it does see it AND it can rip it without problem even with no SCSI emulation.

I've got the same version of wine and DVDShrink but if i try to use DVDShrink it can't see any dvdrom(i've got a Pioneer DVD-R) and if i browse for the file i can only select the desktop folder.How can i configure wine with a grafial interface?

To see the DVDROM under Shrink you need:
a)the DVD has to be mounted (manually or automatically)
b)there must be two simlinks per drive in ~/.wine/dosdevices; for example I have the following links

a: -> /mnt/fd0
a:: -> /dev/fd0
c: -> ../fake_windows
com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
com2 -> /dev/ttyS1
com3 -> /dev/ttyS2
e: -> /mnt/cdrom
e:: -> /dev/hda
f: -> /mnt/cdrom1
f:: -> /dev/hdc
g: -> /mnt/cdrom2
g:: -> /dev/hdd
lpt1 -> /dev/usb/lp0
t: -> /tmp
z: -> /

As for the file open dialog, it is not fully implemented; this is the bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2339

[boombastic]

Well,finally DVDshrink see my DVD-R but i get the error about the aspi:i read the posts before but don't understand what to do.Compiling the kernel is the only way?

[jernst]

Just change "windows"=win98 to "windows"=win2k in your ~/.wine/config file and tell me if it works then (it does for me).

[boombastic]

Under home/<myname>/.wine/ there was no file .config so i took the .config file in the directory usr/share/doc/wine/samples and changed the version of windows but i still get the error about aspi...

[jernst]

Did you put this file in ~/.wine/config ? (editing the sample file won't do any change).

[boombastic]

Finally i managed to use DVD Shrink setting wine with winesetuptk,many thanks for the advices:DVD shrink works very very well!BTW i can't wait for a native application for dvd backup...