installing proprietary VfW codecs in Ubuntu

[mmatta]

Hey guys, I'm very new to Linux so apologies if this is a silly question.

I have a proprietary CCTV codec for Windows which i've managed to transcode video clips into other (open/generic) formats in my windows environment for test using AVISynch and FFMPEG. I would like to setup a scalable and elastic solution to do this on the fly, using Amazon EC2 in a linux environment. FFMPEg and AviSynch are available for Linus, but getting the proprietary codec to actually play is my issue. Is there a way I can take this proprietary VfW codec (dll file) from Windows and install it in Ubuntu? Any direction on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[davexnet]

Perhaps you can run it under WINE.