HOW-TO: Install DVD Shrink with Wine in Breezy

[manicka]

This how-to will install DVD shrink with the new beta version of wine (0.9) from WineHQ. The version of Wine that comes with breezy will install DVD Shrink but will not analyse your original dvd's properly. As always check the relevant copyright laws for your country re backup of DVD's.

I'm assuming that you already have libdvdcss2 installed so that you can play your retail dvd's. If not follow the how-to here

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...w32codecs+easy


Installing Wine

The new Beta (0.9) release is now valiable at WineHQ and fixes a major bug with the preview window in DVD Shrink. Please use the WineHQ deb in preference to the version that comes with breezy -

Run

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add these two lines two your souces.list

deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt binary/
deb-src http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt source/

now update and install wine

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Configuring Wine

alt-f2
winecfg

This will setup your wine directories in ~/ and start the winecfg control panel

Once the winecfg control panel starts, go to the 'Drives' tab and allow it to autodetect your drive setup, by clicking on the 'Auto Detect' button. Close winecfg

N.B. some users have found that DVD Shrink is not detecting their drives properly. This advice from fergus may help:

By default, when you add a drive to wine it thinks its a hard drive and not a cd-rom. Try going into winecfg and to the devices tab. Then enable the Advanced options and select your dvd drive. It might be listed as a hard drive, change that to cd-rom and then DVD Shrink should pick it up.

Further advice.

Recently I did a fresk wine install by deleting my wine directory and then recreating my wine directory and installing dvd shrink again. I to ran into the 'drive not being detected' problem. A solution which worked was to download and install the latest version of winetools and use this to setup my basic wine configuration instead (after installation use the command '/usr/local/winetools/wt0.9jo' instead of 'wt' to start winetools). I would suggest using Winetools to create the fake windows directory, install arial font, install dcom98.exe and Microsoft Foundation Classes 4x. Winetools will also install IE6sp1 but I would not recommend installing this piece of junk.

IE6 will also mess up the way that dvd shrink runs (surrounding screen turns black) if ie6 is installed as well, so do yourself a favour and give it a miss. Once you have created a base setup using Winetools, you should be able to install dvdshrink as per the rest of this how-to.... enjoy

Installing DVD Shrink

Download the DVD Shrink installer. The current version is 3.2.015 and you'll need to do a Google search (try DVD Shrink download) to find it, as the main site no longer carries links to the installer.

In a terminal in the directory that you downloaded DVd Shrink to, run the command

wine dvdshrink32setup.exe

(or whatever the exe file is called)

Follow the installer instructions to install. At the end of the installation uncheck the box that asks to run DVD Shrink now.

when the installer is finished run

alt-f2
winecfg

This will start the winecfg panel again as we have to configure it to run DVD Shrink properly

In the Applications tab window click on 'Add application'

Navigate your way into Program Files-->DVD Shrink and find 'DVD Shrink 32.exe'

highlight this file and click on the open button.

This will now take you back to the Applications Tab window and DVD Shrink should appear in the list in that window.

Highlight DVD Shrink then go down to the Windows Version box and choose 'Windows XP' from the drop down menu.

Click on the 'Apply' button then OK to exit winecfg.

Starting and Using DVD Shrink

The installer should have created an icon on your desktop. You can use this to start DVD Shrink or type the following command in a terminal

wine "C:\Program Files\DVD Shrink\DVD Shrink 3.2.exe"

You can also use this command to make an entry in the Gnome menus with Smeg/Alacarte


Enjoy!

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Edit: added to the wiki
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dvdshrink

Also available at the Ubuntu Document Storage Facility

[MetalMusicAddict]

I get this after I "autodetect" my drives.

Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system" is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/mma', starting in the Windows directory.

I even had a thread about it.

[manicka]

Try renaming your .wine folder then rebuilding it again when you start wine/winecfg.

[MetalMusicAddict]

Try renaming your .wine folder then rebuilding it again when you start wine/winecfg.

Your a God among men.

[BLTicklemonster]

sudo apt-get update
sudo install dvdbackup


=


bill@ubuntumonster:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security Release [19.6kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release [30.9kB]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates/restricted Sources
Fetched 50.9kB in 1s (31.7kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
bill@ubuntumonster:~$ sudo install dvdbackup
install: too few arguments
Try `install --help' for more information.



now what?


and sudo apt-get dvdbackup

=

bill@ubuntumonster:~$ sudo apt-get dvdbackup
E: Invalid operation dvdbackup

[evs]

sudo apt-get update
sudo install dvdbackup

...

now what?

should be

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dvdbackup

[bionnaki]

excellent! works great!

[BLTicklemonster]

bill@ubuntumonster:~$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o /home/bill/ -M
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading


argh. I have 2 drives. slave is the reader.

[manicka]

Yeah!, preview bug fixed in beta release of Wine

How-to updated here and on wiki

[BLTicklemonster]

Okay, just went through it again, and dvdshrink is working just the way it did in windows, it is encoding right now, I hope it will burn once done.

Only problem is with dvd decrypter. I get this when I run it:



It won't detect any drives!

But seeing as how dvdshrink looks like it's working, that may not be a problem.