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

[Larry Sanderson]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 02:52:17 am Bill Williamson wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't be so quick to lay claim to that 0% figure.  The ndiswrapper 
drivers were all about getting Windows drivers (in this case, primarily 
wireless LAN drivers) to work via wine, and those were pretty stable.  

Sure, this would be a ton of work, but I've seen some amazing things out 
of motivated OSS programmers.  

I'd say it's more like a 4% chance :-)