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@reylafo good to see another DVDFab user converted to Linux

Indeed. I believe we're growing

I just talked a friend of mine at work into setting up a dual boot XP- Ubuntu Gutsy machine. Of course I will be showing him how much you can do with Linux

OK, I've just installed the new 4.0.3.0, and for some reason, I now have no easy link in my Wine submenu in kubuntu. I fully removed the previous DVDFab HD Decrypter including the auto-created menu entry before installing this build.
Note however, that the desktop shortcut was created properly. I just prefer a clean desktop & use the Kmenu for everything by choice.

Any advice?
Thanks!

I've found that it's best to leave the Kmenu Wine section alone in Kmenu Editor unless I never intend to install the program again. It seems to not do well with user interaction when Wine is involved. Ditto to removing the hidden .desktop files that are the links that put those programs into KMenu.

Once broken the only way I've got it back was by using the Wine uninstaller to uninstall all my Windows programs, remove the hidden ~.wine folder, purge Wine using the system package manager, logout and in, and then reinstall everything. In that case it might help to remove the Wine section from KMenu editor before reinstalling and also check the ~.kde folder for those wine links and delete them, and then reinstall Wine using your package manager.

I've fixed this before, but now don't play around with those shortcuts as I know removing them will break any future shortcuts showing up. This doesn't effect anything but the Wine programs, but I like those KMenu Wine shortcuts and want to keep them working too.

The reinstallation of Wine itself refreshes everything, sets up the hidden .wine folder fresh, and hooks into KMenu fresh again as well.

Next time just use the built in Wine Uninstaller to uninstall DVDFab and then run the installation program normally. Install to the same place and the shortcuts in KMenu will stay working.

Wine has a built in Add/Remove programs. Use that to uninstall Windows software rather than the program's uninstaller.

I have screwed up a few Wine installations and now keep a folder with all my Wine stuff to make a re-install so much easier. I still do a lot of testing in Wine and re-install quite often. Once things seem broken or buggy I just wipe out the .wine folder and re-install. Wine is not perfect but progress is steady and it is IMO getting better.

Hmm. No luck. After uninstalling Wine itself, removing the Kmenu entry and reinstalling, no I have no Wine section in the Kmenu at all. Wine is fully functional; my apps run, but there's no convenient menu ir wine entries at all. More investigation to follow...

Update:
Solved. See this thread on the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4025416

FWIW, just thought I would add my experience, to this thread. Using openSUSE 10.3 on an Asus M2NPV-VM integrated 6150 IGP board, Audigy SE el-cheapo sound card using ALSA sound emulation, 2 gigs memory, AMD 3600x2 processor, Pioneer DVR-107D (used mostly as input) and 112D (used mostly for output) burners, Wine 0.9.51-12.1. The only thing I had installed under Wine was Solitaire & Freecell prior to installing DVDFab. I'm using the Nvidia drivers from openSUSE available via "1-click" install.

Using the information in prior posts under this thread, I made sure that I renamed "winealsa.drv.so" to "winealsa.drv.so.old" in "/usr/lib/wine", then I ran "winecfg" to make sure the emulated OS was Win2K and the OSS sound drivers were selected. Around this time Wine told me it couldn't find the ALSA module so did I want to delete that reference? I said sure, go ahead.

After Wine restart and logging in/out (to restart KDE, my preference) I copied the DVDFabPlatinum EXE and Keyfile into my (choose Home directory).wine "C" drive directory, then using the terminal application executed:
/usr/bin/wine "c:\DVDFabPlatinum45032.exe"

(or something like this), and DVDFab installed perfectly. Then I right-clicked on the keyfile and chose "open with DVDFab" (or whatnot) and DVDFab told me the key was accepted and the program would be restarted (which it did). BTW, you can delete both the setup program and the keyfile afterwards if you want.

I then created a desktop shortcut to DVDFab:
right-click desktop and select "Create New ... Link to Application; watch upper/lower characters, spaces in the command box; mine says /usr/bin/wine "c:\Program Files\DVDFab Platinum 4\DVDFabPlatinum.exe"

and used it to fire up the program. Then set the options to what I would need. BTW, the previous poster is correct ... in "options" you need to use the down arrow to go down the major groups (at least the first one), after which the mouse has no trouble with the sub-selections and individual items to check/uncheck. If you don't do this, it gives the appearance that it is ignoring the mouse. BTW, if you do get genuine unresponsiveness at any time, just log out and back in to the desktop ... this will reset the display and desktop manager, as well as DVDFab. No need for a reboot.

I then logged out and in of the desktop, to make sure KDE was synch'd and put in my original X-Men (2) for backup testing purposes and made sure KDE opened a file list of its contents. This seems necessary, as the prior post noted, to make sure DVDFab "sees" the DVD. This may just be an openSUSE "thing", I don't know. Then I fired up DVDFab using the desktop shortcut and selected Full Disk or whatnot ... the first selection, anyway ... and since this was a test, took a baby step and selected the DVDFab folder as the target. This DVDFab folder is created by the DVDFab install program in your Home Directory (Folder). Put a "rip" sub-folder if you want, or use another partition and folder ... your choice.

DVDFab ripped the Full Disk in about 13 minutes, using this (Ext3 filesystem) folder. I then used K3B to write the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS output of the rip to a Verbatim MKM 2.4x-4/6/8x DRD+R DL blank. It finished in 14.5 minutes.

The backup played perfectly using Mplayer, Kaffeine, etc. I then put it into my living room DVR player and it too played perfectly. English, Spanish and French sound tracks, no artifacts, sharp-sharp quality, and the layer break wasn't noticeable. Truly astounding performance by Wine under openSUSE Linux ... that now I can dump the Windows part of my dual-boot configuration, which I only use to backup my CDs and DVD.

Hope the above helps other folks.

New trick (well, actually a fix by the alsa folks) to not have to do without Alsa in Wine on OpenSUSE:

Add the Multimedia:/Audio Build Service repository and in YaST switch the search dropdown to repositories. Choose that repo and on the right, right click and choose all in this list, update all with newer versions if available. Proceed, and alsa will be upgraded to a version that fixed the Wine problem.

Actually, I always answered No to the question of whether Wine should delete the Alsa references in the registry. I didn't want those deleted in case Alsa got fixed, like it is. Don't know if you wouldn't need to start over with a fresh ./wine directory and wineprefixcreate for a complete registry build that includes Alsa again if you answered Yes to that question.

Now I'm on Debian Lenny and got no error like that anyway. I built Wine by compiling it with ./tools/wineinstall like I usually do in Debian since the winehq package is for Etch and the Debian package is usually behind in versions.

Only new problem I have is wineboot gives an error about winedevice: ServiceMain driver ("MountMgr" failed to load), but everything works regardless.

DVDFab 4030 froze when beginning to rip, but 4032 fixed that and all is well. I was happy when it was able to actually automatically upgrade itself perfectly. I opened DVDFabHDDecrypter, it detected an upgrade and installed it fine without my uninstalling, reinstalling bother. Then I ripped a DVD fine too! I assume it doesn't do this for Beta's, but I'll find out the next time I use the program. I'd actually prefer it didn't do that for beta's. I've been upgrading to them but I'd think the default update check should only detect release versions.

I installed the latest version of DVDFab Platinum on windows 98 and Wine and have the same issue.
Windows XP works fine so it looks like the latest version broke registration for Windows 98/ME (and Wine)

I contacted DVDFab support about this so hopefully they'll resolve the issue before the trial period is over.

Why should DVD Fab support fix this as Linux is not a supported platform?

I suggest that you will have to look after yourself.

Wine may not be supported but Windows98 is a supported platform and if the registration does not work on that OS there is a problem.

You've gotta be joking expecting support for a 10 year old OS....

This was taken directly from the DVDFab site

If they are not going to support it, they should not claim to.

Personally I have no use for Windows of any variation.

As far as installing and running in linux really don't need any support from dvd fab. It's actually dvd fab that should want to provide a minimal amount of support to people that want to or have purchased a full version - at least in terms of keys, reg. and updates if problems arise. For one more and more people are moving to linux - i'm sure more than a handful would want to purchase a 1 click solution, two - anyone whose used wine for a bit knows what a piece of cake it is to wipe wine out and reinstall.

Been there and done that plenty!

That is why I originally started this thread, hoping to get some input from Fengtao. I know that the registration part should not be an issue and could be fixed, as I have DVD Rebuilder Pro running on the same set-up.

Hopefully we can get enough users in this thread to get Fengtao's attention.

So what are people using to compress and burn the dvd after it has been ripped? That is why I like K9 cause it does all 3. It just has problems with some css protections.

DVD Shrink in Wine (or DVD Rebuilder as wildchild88 mentioned).

I wish I had the same luck as most of you. I am running Fedora 8 wine .9.52, and it will not work for me. The seems to be in calculating free drive space. I have a raid volume mounted with 50+ gigs free, when I try to rip the disk dvdfab tells me I don't have enough free space. The main drive has 5 gigs free for temp and what ever. Does dvdfab need to be installed with more free space on its windows drive?

Thanks

What directory are you using for the rip target? Have you tried changing the rip target to a different location.

I figured out what my problem is DVDfab uses a temp directory of some type to rip the disk into and process, which I do not have enough free space for. I was trying to do this on a mythtv front end, which only has a 10 gig main drive, with 5 gigs free. After it finishes processing, it will move everything over to where you tell it to put the .iso.

So it works, of course I can't change any of the settings as other people have posted, but it works.

Kim

So is there a great how-to on using DVD shrink in Linux?

It's quite old, but you can have a look on mrbass.org: http://mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/dvdshrink/ .

I'm sure there's others if you search. Basically, you need to familiarize yourself with Wine, which allows running Windows apps in Linux.

I have DVDFab HD Decrypter 4.0.3.2 running good with Wine on Kubuntu 7.10