VirtualDub and TMPGEnc under wine

[d.maddock1]

Well, I finally got these to work (mostly) so I thought I'd post my experiences.

My setup:
Win2000Pro partition
Debian

1st point wine to a win partition, I couldn't get the apps to work well with the 'fake_windows' install. Probably due to my stupidity though. I already had both apps and codecs installed on this partition, however I had to reinstall divx5 codec and Nimo Codec Pack with wine for some reason.

After this things are running good, but I have one problem...TMPGEnc will not encode an audio source. If I give it just one file, it ignores the audio; if I try to specify a separate wav extracted with VirtualDub I get the error "File... can not open, or unsupported."

Any ideas?

[C-Dub]

I think you might not have the right audio codec but I'm not sure but it might be something to check out

[magomago]

My guess would be that Wine doesn't fully support those...because those are pretty "heavy" algorithms Wine is going to interpret. Perhaps @ this stage wine hasn't implemented all the commands of those programs.

My best guess would be to do it in Windoze.

[ching0]

i think the reason you had to reinstall it is because wine stores win32 dlls locally (in linux) and doesnt read it from the fake windows directory.

i personally wouldnt run any encoding software under wine unless you nice -20 it. i have a 1.3 gHz and i still dont trust wine.

speaking of wine... LindowsOS is a joke.

[musicman]

Ching0 said:

i think the reason you had to reinstall it is because wine stores win32 dlls locally (in linux) and doesnt read it from the fake windows directory.

i personally wouldnt run any encoding software under wine unless you nice -20 it. i have a 1.3 gHz and i still dont trust wine.

Not a true statement. Wine does have builtin DLLs, but it can use REAL windows DLLs simply by adding them to the config file. The config file allows one to specify whether the DLL is a stanard WINE builtin, or a native Windows DLL.

This works good, and I am running Nero under WINE, using Nero's native DLL files.

TMPGEnc will also work fine under Linux. Unless you have an Athlon XP processor, all Tmpgenc versions should work. If you have an XP processor, don't expect any TMPGEnc versions later than 2.56 to work however.

Regarding the nice -20. WTF? I run standard nice levels on all my WINE rendering software, it is just as fast as running under Windows. Please explain this further.

MusicMan

[ching0]

"anytime you emulate something, you should make it as nice as possible" -me

i dunno man, maybe WINE does work for you. for me and like 5 other people i know who use linux, it doesnt. but, what can i say? there are so many variables that factor into the equation. hell.... i was running half life when i had SuSE 7.0 professional running on this computer like 3 or 4 years ago or whatever, right after SuSE 7.0 came out. all i've had with wine though, is problems.... and i wouldnt recommend using it to anyone. it is merely an opinion. i wouldnt recommend using windows XP to anyone, and still, people dont listen.

[musicman]

When I first started using WINE several years ago, I got so frustrated with it I basically just gave up on it. I have only recently begun experimenting with it again, and believe me, each update make it run better and better.

With that said, I have all my WINE / TMPGenc problems now fixed. The problem the whole time was the motherboard. I swapped it out and now it renders entire projects without a single glitch. Why the MB would only crash on TMPGEnc is beyond me, but it now works and I'm happy. Here is the simplified procedure to make it work:




1. Download and compile WINE. You must NOT compile it as root.,
but it will ask your for a root passwd whenever it needs it.
Once you have the .gz file decompressed,
cd to it (as a regular user) and type "./tools/wineinstall".
Follow the onscreen instructions from here until it's installed.
I did my install with a fake windows directory. This seems more
reliable than trying to use a real Windows install.

NOTE - Always get the lastest version from www.winehq.org.
Do not attempt to use the one that comes with your
Linux Distribution.

2. Download TMPGEnc from www.tmpgenc.net and decompress it to your
~/c drive.

3. Get the m2p.vfp plugin and put it in your TMPGEnc directory.
http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/

4. CD to your new TMPGEnc directory and run it with:
wine tmpgenc.exe.