Shadowchaser Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 I have been cracking my head over this for a least a week. I installed dvdshrink on my box using wine, it installed fine but it won't open a movie to shrink it.. It says no drives found,I googled for a way to fix it but witn no luck. i went into winecfg to make sure that cdrom(dvdrom) is read as a cdrom but it keeps seeing it as a harddrive. does anybody have any suggestions? thanks a million -SC [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 (edited) DVD shrink, or any other win32 application running via Wine, cannot initialize properly CD drives without the (deprecated/obsolete) ide-scsi emulation. This also applies for the newest Crossover Office 5. My suggestion: if you can't afford an expensive solution like VMWare workstation, then our best native Linux DVD shrinker is K9copy. Edited November 26, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 I found there is a dvdshrink rpm if you urpmi, you can add it. It's not the same as the Windows version, but might do what you want. The other item I've been using is acidrip, but this creates avi's, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 You also have to mount your dvds before it will see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted November 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 thanks for the info. I have K9copy and it's alright but the winblows version of dvdshrink is far better, i just would like to use it in linux. i just can't get it to work. :( . dvdshrink (rpm) is Cli which is not a problem but i'm more partial to a GUI and dvdshrink(rpm) give errors mostly with pal but also with some ntsc. go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 That's odd. My DVD shrink rpm was a gui :P Found in KDE under Multimedia/Video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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