a wine question?

linuxgeek13 · 10-08-2005, 09:12 PM

i am running suse 10.0 and i installed wine with no troubles, my problem is i have installed a few different windows dvd copy programs ,all goes well and they install great ,but when they ask to coose a dvd recorder ,it doesnt show up in the menu,am i missing somthing,any input would be great...thanks.

cs-cam · 10-09-2005, 12:11 AM

Is there a specific reason you are using a Windows program through Wine to do this? dvdshink and dvd9to5 are both good examples. Sorry, can't hlep with the original question but I tired with an alternate solution

bd1308 · 10-09-2005, 10:22 AM

only thing i can give you is a speculation.....

i think windows uses the ATAPI scsi driver thing for the DVD-rw drive that linux doesn't support.....

LOT easier to use native programs though......

doralsoral · 10-09-2005, 10:25 AM

ive had the same problem with dvdshrink and i would love to use a native linux program tat will do the same thing as dvdshrink but i have not been able to find one. Does one exist?

dracolich · 10-09-2005, 01:00 PM

Do you have a logical drive mapped to your dvd recorder drive? I don;t know if that'll help but it's a place to start. In your ~/.wine/dosdevices see if there's a link that looks something like d: -> /mnt/dvdrw (that's what mine looks like).

As the others suggest, try a native linux program instead. vobcopy is a decent commandline utility that'll copy the contents of a dvd disc as long as the required libs are installed.

doralsoral · 10-09-2005, 09:00 PM

will vobcopy compress the dvd files so they will fit on one dvd?

cs-cam · 10-10-2005, 03:45 AM

I don't know but probably not, dvd9to5 will though