Contents
- 1 HOW-TO: Install DVD Shrink with Wine in Breezy
- 2 Installing Wine
- 3 Configuring Wine
- 4 Installing DVD Shrink
- 5 Starting and Using DVD Shrink
HOW-TO: Install DVD Shrink with Wine in Breezy
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 PLF
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
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| sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list |
add these two lines two your souces.list
now update and install wine
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Code:
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| sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine |
Configuring Wine
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Code:
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| 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 fresh 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
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Code:
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| 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
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| 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
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Code:
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| wine “C:Program FilesDVD ShrinkDVD Shrink 3.2.exe” |
You can also use this command to make an entry in the Gnome menus with Smeg
Enjoy!