[mythtv-users] Facing the music -- running PowerDVD via Wine
Bill Williamson
bill at bbqninja.com
Thu Feb 28 07:52:17 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Marc Barrett <mnealbarrett at cox.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
PureVideo is a feature of the driver, not just the program playing the
dvd, so there is a 0% chance of it working.
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