[mythtv-users] Facing the music -- running PowerDVD via Wine

Marc Barrett mnealbarrett at cox.net
Thu Feb 28 04:58:22 UTC 2008


I think it is going to be a while before it is possible to view
BluRay movies under Linux.  Even then, I think it would 
require a MONDO fast CPU because Linux still will not
have anything like Nvidia's PureVideo to speed up decoding.
So, the best alternative I can think of would be to run 
the Cyberlink PowerDVD software via Wine. 

Looking at the WineHQ site, I don't know what works and
what doesn't as far as running PowerDVD via Wine right 
now, though.  It likely needs some work.  What I am 
really wondering about is the likelihood of getting 
PowerDVD's PureVideo support to work under Wine.
I don't know if that feature is built-into the program, or 
works by way of some sort of driver.



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