[mythtv-users] Facing the music -- running PowerDVD via Wine
Mark Hutchinson
mark at onnow.net
Thu Feb 28 18:19:25 UTC 2008
Chad wrote:
> 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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Let me know how you make out. What works and what does not. I have a
Blu-Ray drive, and have tested a few things. UDF 2.5 needs to be
patched in Fedora just to read the disks. Mplayer ( Non SVN ) does not
play etc.....
Not looking good I dont think.
I would like to hear your reports though!
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