DVD-Shrink
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According to the Application Database this software is for DVD's. There may be legal implications for this and a wiki is not a source of legal advice. If you need advice seek out a qualified professional. Wine-Wiki.org:General disclaimer
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- [Nov 05] When DVDShrink accessed the disk I got tons of this message:
- fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=1882 < primary_done=4200)
- So I configured Wine not to use the buildin "dsound.dll" any more with the application DVDShrink and now all is quiet again: the disk's audio tracks are not played any longer as soon as DVDShrink accesses the disk. :-) [wine archive unknown]
- Nov 05 listed as gold in the appdb.
- User posted: DVDShrink 3.2 under Wine the dvd's audio track starts to play immediately when DVDShrink is starting. I can press the stop button and playing will stop, but as soon as I click anywhere the playing starts again. It's a bit annoying to hear a dvd's audio track while it is being shrunk by DVDShrink. The program didn't show tis behaviour under the previous version of Wine.
- [Aug 05] A user reported: DVD Shrink installed according to the Ubuntu How To, but DVD Shrink could not see any DVD devices. The drop down list was empty when I tried to do an ???open disc??? action. J. von Thadden: Mount the disc first, then it should work with the open dialog.Wine Archive
- [ Uknown date pre wine 0.9] A user reported some difficulties with this approach and suggested another workaround: I was not successful at getting DVD Shrink to recognize the devices properly. Once or twice I did get connected to the content on the drive, but was unable to read it. I tried loading the DVD first, I tried doing a hard mount to /dev/hdc with my id, and then I tried a hard mount as root to /dev/hdc on /media/cdrom. The last effort did allow the occasional connection in the drop down list. However, Shrink would execute for about an hour and then just stall. The log indicated access errors. I finally changed approach to using dvdbackup to copy the full disc to /.wine/drive_c on my hard drive. It was then very easy to use the open file facility of DVD Shrink, run the shrink process, and then use K3B to write the video DVD. It is an extra step, but not a difficult work around.
DVD-Shrink: CD-Rom Fix
DVD Shrink should install from the win32 installer into Wine's fake_windows directory fine.
To get it to detect your CD/DVD drive:
- Update. With recent versions of wine, use winecfg to set drives.
First delete all references to drives in Wine Config;
Delete This
/home/user/.wine/config
and change the Windows type from win98 to winxp. Next,
In a console do the following|
$ mkdir /home/user/.wine/dosdevices $ cd /home/user/.wine/dosdevices $ ln -s ../fake_windows c: $ ln -s /mnt/cdrom d:
Your CD/DVD drive should show up in DVD Shrink now.
If you get an error "Failed to read file D:\" this is apparently caused by a CSS encrypted DVD, if you open the dvd in mplayer first it should then work in dvd shrink.
umount /mnt/cdrom mplayer dvd://1 mount /mnt/cdrom/ Start DVD Shrink
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