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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This works great, thanks!
In step 3 I had to do “sh winetricks vb6run wsh56″ but other than that, perfect.
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.
Awsome thanks, I too needed the sh for winetricks, Now I don’t have to re-boot into windows!
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
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.
That’s fantastic. Been trying for ages. Thanks very much.
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
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.
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?
No sorry I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure Qnap use a custom linux distro. But again, I don’t really know.
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.
Shouldnt be required if you installed vb6run
Hell yes! Works like a charm! Thanks very much.
Excellent got it working, really impressed got sick of rebooting back into Windows
Hooray, still works! Thanks