After a long time of trying to find a solution on how to play .mkv(x.264) on my PS3 when I’m running GNU/Linux on my main computer, Ive finally stumbled upon the solution. As many already know, for Windows there’s already an application called mkv2vob and earlier it didn’t seem to want to work well on GNU/Linux when run under wine. So the temporary solution has been to either dual-boot with Windows or run a virtual Windows through VirtualBox/VMserver or do the conversion by hand in CLI.
Now however its possible to run mkv2vob through wine following these few easy steps:
- Install the latest version of Wine
- Open terminal: wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
- sh winetricks vb6run wsh56
- wget http://www.3r1c.eu/mkv2vob/mkv2vob.exe
- wine mkv2vob.exe
INSTALLDIR=”C:\\mkv2vob” - Your all set, enjoy!
Source: http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=27&page=1 (registration may be required)
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Thanks a lot for sharing this! Works great.
I can open the program now but when I try to convert it’s giving an error…
Well, what error? I don’t get any.
I followed all steps and MKV2VOB installed and put a wine icon on my desktop. When I try to open it a window pops up in taskbar saying “Starting MKV2VOB…” but then disappears and the program doesn’t open. Any suggestions would be appreciated. (Mageia 1)
Same problem and I followed the instructions to the letter.
I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 32 bit, but not sure if that is important here. Would really love to know what I can do to get this working. Thanks a lot in advance guys.
If you run it from a terminal you can get debug messages from wine. Then you have something to google for.
thanks man worked great .