[mythtv-users] Facing the music -- running PowerDVD via Wine
Chad
masterclc at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 18:13:36 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Richard Bronosky
<BrunosJunk at bronosky.com> wrote:
> So you're telling me there's a chance. ;-)
>
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0109686/quotes#qt0191749
>
> Sorry, couldn't help myself.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Larry Sanderson
> <larry.sanderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 :-)
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
I'm in the midst of testing Blu-Ray playback on Linux. I'm using an
Intel E8400 on an Asus P5M-VM with 4GB of RAM (using the onboard Intel
G35 graphics). There are documents out there on using Linux to play
back your Blu-Ray videos on Linux:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
-Chad
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