openSUSE 10.3 Linux, Wine & DVDFabPlatinum [SUCCESS!!]

[burpnrun]

FWIW, just thought I would add my experience to this Linux sub-forum. I'm using openSUSE 10.3 (32 bit) on an Asus M2NPV-VM integrated 6150 IGP board, Audigy SE el-cheapo sound card using ALSA sound emulation, 2 gigs memory, AMD 3600x2 processor, Pioneer DVR-107D (used mostly as input) and 112D (used mostly for output) IDE burners, Wine 0.9.51-12.1 and a 250 gb WDD SATA HardDrive. The only thing I had installed already under Wine was Solitaire & Freecell prior to installing DVDFab. I'm using the Nvidia drivers from openSUSE available via "1-click" install.

Using the information in prior posts for the DVDFab product at Club CD Freaks (see link in left margin here), I made sure that I renamed "winealsa.drv.so" to "winealsa.drv.so.old" in "/usr/lib/wine", then I ran "winecfg" to make sure the emulated OS was Win2K and the OSS sound drivers were selected. Around this time Wine told me it couldn't find the ALSA module so did I want to delete that reference? I said sure, go ahead.

After Wine restart and logging in/out (to restart KDE, my preference) I copied the DVDFabPlatinum EXE and keyfile into my (choose Home directory).wine "C" drive directory, then using the terminal application executed:
/usr/bin/wine "c:\DVDFabPlatinum45032.exe"

(or something like this), and DVDFab installed perfectly. Then I right-clicked on the keyfile and chose "open with DVDFab" (or whatnot) and DVDFab told me the key was accepted and the program would be restarted (which it did). BTW, you can delete both the setup program and the keyfile afterwards if you want.

I then created a desktop shortcut to DVDFab:
right-click desktop and select "Create New ... Link to Application; watch upper/lower characters, spaces in the command box; mine says /usr/bin/wine "c:\Program Files\DVDFab Platinum 4\DVDFabPlatinum.exe"

and used it to fire up the program. Then set the options to what I would need. BTW, the poster at Club CD Freaks is correct ... in "options" you need to use the down arrow to go down the major groups (at least the first one), after which the mouse has no trouble with the sub-selections and individual items to check/uncheck. If you don't do this, it gives the appearance that it is ignoring the mouse. BTW, if you do get genuine unresponsiveness at anyt time, just log out and back in to the desktop ... this will reset the display and desktop manager, as well as DVDFab. No need for a reboot.

I then logged out and in of the desktop, to make sure KDE was synch'd and put in my original X-Men (2) for backup testing purposes and made sure KDE opened a file list of its contents. This seems necessary, as the prior post noted, to make sure DVDFab "sees" the DVD. This may just be an openSUSE "thing", I don't know. Then I fired up DVDFab using the desktop shortcut and selected Full Disk or whatnot ... the first selection, anyway ... and since this was a test, took a baby step and selected the DVDFab folder as the target. This DVDFab folder is created by the DVDFab install program in your Home Directory (Folder). Put a "rip" sub-folder if you want, or use another partition and folder ... your choice.

DVDFab ripped the Full Disk in about 13 minutes, using this (Ext3 filesystem) folder. I then used K3B to write the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS output of the rip to a Verbatim MKM 2.4x-4/6/8x DRD+R DL blank. It finished in 14.5 minutes.

The backup played perfectly using Mplayer, Kaffeine, etc in openSUSE. I then put it into my living room DVR player and it too played perfectly. English, Spanish and French sound tracks, no artifacts, sharp-sharp quality, and the layer break wasn't noticeable. Truly astounding performance by Wine under openSUSE Linux combined with the goodness of DVDFabPlatinum ... that now I can dump the Windows part of my dual-boot configuration, which I only use to backup my CDs and DVD. All Free!!!! Except DVDFab, of course.

Hope the above helps other folks.

[qwerty9876543]

For me, Using Mepis 7 and a no frills install of wine with no modifications it was as easy as clicking setup.exe for DVDFab Platinum.

[kenmo]

How is wine's support of apps requiring DirectX?

[disturbed1]

How is wine's support of apps requiring DirectX?

Quite a bit of DirectX 8 and earlier is useable, not so much so for DirectX 9. There is a guide out there that shows you how to install DirectX 9 through wine. Not too sure how well it works. Some apps that use DirectX overlay to draw pictures(video) don't work so well. In VirtualDub, you have to disable DirectX preview, or the program will crash. Once DirectX is disabled, the program runs like a champ. http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php <- For a list of apps and how well they run. If an app isn't listed, doesn't mean it won't run