How to: Wine Installation & using DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter under linux

[mrbass]

Look at Lightning UK last post in this thread about STPI. Seems like it's a good choice.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?a&threadid=89964

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ok, this Wine thing has always interested me (so far as DVD Decrypter is concerned) but I've never touched Linux and so don't really know where to start.

I don't know for sure if it's sorted now or not but I've read posts saying DVD Decrypter HAS to have SCSI emulation. Now again, I've no idea how wine works but the fact that DVD Dec works ok if you set Wine to emulate NT4 tells me something very helpful.

Wine mustn't emulate the '\\.\CdRomx' (where x is a number - i.e. 1) format of opening devices via spti unless you enable scsi emulation.

That format isn't supported under NT4 so my program reverts to the old method of just going by drive letters - '\\.\x:' (where x is a letter - i.e d).

I've noticed a few other errors (with DeviceIoControl) around the place but they're probably just caused by bits missing from Wine - because they work ok in the real OS!

[Joe Fenton]

I don't think it's a problem in DVD Decrypter, but in WINE. It works for some people, and not for others, and for other yet, it only works if a DVD is mounted before running. This indicates problems inside WINE associated with handling the device io - converting Windows calls to the CDVD into linux calls.

[mrbass]

Yea still haven't found the reason why it works on some distros and not others but when it works it with nt40 it works well. So perhaps maybe in DVD Decrypter like you say you could give us an option to 'revert to drive letters' that way maybe win2k and winxp wine emulation might work too.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I'm one step ahead of you ;)

[mrbass]

sweet Lightning UK! that'll be awesome. Much appreciated.

[Joe Fenton]

DAMN! And just when linux people were about to get a needed change...

RIP DVD Decrypter...

[mrbass]

that's ok...just a few more tweaks. I believe my video preview isn't working but it's just a matter of specifically saying dvdshrink to use wink2k that's all.

Lightning UK! it was awesome. You did everyone a great service and why they specifically choose to target freeware is beyond me. Why not payware is beyond me. Laws still conflict way too much so hopefully U.S. congress will clarify it. At least the broadcast flag got nipped in the rear end recently. I wonder if you even tried contacting EFF though to see if they'd defend ya.

[KpeX]

For Joe & everybody else trying to get this to work on 64bit:

I finally got around to trying wine in a 64 bit linux distro (btw, (k)ubuntu absolutely rocks for laptop support!) and getting Shrink/DD to work. Rather than running a 64 bit version of wine I got this to work by installing a 32 bit version of wine and using 32-bit emulation libraries (under ubuntu these are called ia32-libs, they just install some 32-bit libraries to /lib32 and /usr/lib32) and then forcing the installation of a 32 bit wine deb (dpkg --force-all -i wine_0.0.20050419-winehq-1_i386.deb ). After that Shrink & DD work fine using Version=nt40.

[jernst]

Hi guys,

Would you mind adding your how-to's in the relevant Wine AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org) entries ? I'm sure it'll help a lot more users.

DVD Decrypter: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2587
DVD Shrink: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2230

If you need help with the AppDB, don't hesitate to ask me as I'm one of the AppDB devs.

Thanks !

P.S. Adding KpeX's how-to for DVD Rebuilder (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=95199) would be much appreciated as well (just add the application in the database) !

[KpeX]

Some nice developments in wine CVS lately...

First I should note that for me, DVD Decrypter is not working with the 20050725 snapshot, so be forewarned using this package. A major change in the 0725 snapshot is that the winecfg utility is now fully functional, deprecating ~/.wine/config. All configuration can now be done with this easy interface:
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/9946/wine11qu.th.png (http://img287.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wine11qu.png) http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/1984/wine28bw.th.png (http://img287.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wine28bw.png)

However in CVS as of yesterday, DVD Decrypter is working for me again, as well as the open files button in DVDShrink! Once a snapshot comes out with these features, I'll update the guide.

[jernst]

I can confirm that the open files button works in current release and the DVD reading regression from DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink were fixed in CVS.

DVD Shrink work ~100% for me now (the only missing feature is the preview at the bottom left pane when using builtin quartz).

Also riched20 builtin was fixed some time ago and so I don't thnik it's usefull anymore to use native riched20.dll for dvd shrink.

[Joe Fenton]

Cool! The guy who maintains the FC packages for WINE has been "away" for a couple months now - I really need to start compiling it myself from the CVS.

[Zainal]

I'm running FC4 and I've tried compling wine from the CVS. Actually in truth it builds and installs fine but the problem comes when I try to install windows stuff, for example the dialog box for dvdshrink's installer says the folder is not a valid location. Any help on remeding this would be appreciated.

[jernst]

Hey, I reported the preview bug with builtin quartz and it has been fixed in cvs ! Even the sound works now. The only problem is that the preview appears on the top left instead of bottom left.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/08/0494.html

This means that no dll overrides are necessary anymore !

[Joe Fenton]

I'm running FC4 and I've tried compling wine from the CVS. Actually in truth it builds and installs fine but the problem comes when I try to install windows stuff, for example the dialog box for dvdshrink's installer says the folder is not a valid location. Any help on remeding this would be appreciated.

Make sure WINE has permission to use the ~/.wine directory. Sounds like you don't have write permission. Could also be that your sym links in ~/.wine/dosdevices directory might be bad.

[Zainal]

For some reason on a later try in installing from cvs it inexplicable works; I didn't do anything different but for some reason it now works. It has me completely baffled, but hell I'll take it.