It works! Mkv2vob in Linux

23Apr/0919

It works! Mkv2Vob in Linux

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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)

Tagged as: Linux, Matroska, mkv2vob, Movies, Playstation3, Wine Leave a comment

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Ben
October 17th, 2009 - 21:24

This works great, thanks!

In step 3 I had to do “sh winetricks vb6run wsh56″ but other than that, perfect.

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- Torstein Skulbru
  October 19th, 2009 - 10:17
  
  If you “chmod +x winetricks” you make it runnable, then you can do ./wineticks.
  Even better, make it runnable and move it to /usr/bin/ then you can just type “winetricks” any time you need it.
  
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Wayne
October 24th, 2009 - 19:43

Awsome thanks, I too needed the sh for winetricks, Now I don’t have to re-boot into windows!

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Martin
November 11th, 2009 - 02:58

I don’t know what version of wine you guys are using but mine didn’t work until I downloaded MSVBVM60.dll and extracted it too .wine/windows/system32 and ran wine mk2vob.exe

just thought i would put this out there in case anyone else is having the same issues

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Andy
December 9th, 2009 - 02:42

It worked for me as well,except the following:
1.Do chmod +x winetricks
2.Don’t forget to change the filename if you are using a newer EXE.

That’s it.

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BenC`
December 10th, 2009 - 19:59

That’s fantastic. Been trying for ages. Thanks very much.

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Richard
February 5th, 2010 - 14:00

I just bought a NAS (QNAP TS-219). I want to use this stuff on my nas, but unfortunately it goed wrong at step 3: sh winetricks vb6run wsh56. I receive an error about line 26 missing wine….?

I don’t know a lot about linux, I am just a guy who uses the things I can find on internet. Hopefully somebody can help me with this issue…???

kind regards,
Richard

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- Torstein Skulbru
  February 6th, 2010 - 12:47
  
  Hi there, the error you’re getting is because wine isn’t installed on your NAS. I am however uncertain about Qnap functions, and if its even possible to install wine on it. I suggest you ask around on the official Qnap forum about this. If its not possible to install wine, you will need to use some other type of converting. It might be possible to run PMS (Playstation Media Server) which can transcode the files on-the-fly when watching on a PS3, but if you aren’t planning on using a PS3 that wont work either.
  
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  - Richard
    February 6th, 2010 - 20:55
    
    I tried, but I don’t find a lot……
    
    Again, ik am a noob on linux and qnap. I even don’t know which version of linux is running om my qnap ts-219…..
    
    do you have any idea?
    
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    - Torstein Skulbru
      February 7th, 2010 - 14:57
      
      No sorry I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure Qnap use a custom linux distro. But again, I don’t really know.
      
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MattWA
March 2nd, 2010 - 09:55

Martin! Thanks for the comment. Adding the DLL file to the proper location indeed allowed MKV2VOB to run in wine for me on Fedora 11.

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- Torstein Skulbru
  March 2nd, 2010 - 12:56
  
  Shouldnt be required if you installed vb6run
  
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pl4yer0ne
May 19th, 2010 - 13:01

Hell yes! Works like a charm! Thanks very much.

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vader004
May 27th, 2010 - 19:10

Excellent got it working, really impressed got sick of rebooting back into Windows

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Colin
July 2nd, 2010 - 08:05

Hooray, still works! Thanks

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