[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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