It works! Mkv2Vob in Linux

By

Torstein Skulbru

– April 23, 2009Posted in: Linux

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:

1. Install the latest version of Wine
2. Open terminal: wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
3. sh winetricks vb6run wsh56
4. wget http://www.3r1c.eu/mkv2vob/mkv2vob.exe
5. wine mkv2vob.exe INSTALLDIR=”C:\\mkv2vob”
6. Your all set, enjoy!

Source: http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=27&page=1 (registration may be required)

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Tags: Linux, Matroska, mkv2vob, Movies, Playstation3, Wine

About Torstein Skulbru

23 year old, Bachelor ICT(Information and Communication Technology) student at University of Bergen (NO)

36 Comments

1. Reply

   jluc_lemo

   Posted July 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM

   Thanks a lot

2. Reply

   Steve

   Posted July 27, 2010 at 10:18 PM

   absolutely wonderful

3. Reply

   Pavel

   Posted August 7, 2010 at 10:22 AM

   Thanks a lot

4. Reply

   easyrhino

   Posted August 21, 2010 at 10:43 PM

   why didn’t i find this site sooner!!!!!!!!

5. Reply

   mq

   Posted October 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM

   I’m still hoping to see a command-line version of this great program..

   • Reply

     Torstein Skulbru

     Posted October 16, 2010 at 12:36 AM

     You can use mkvtools (or something like that), but having mkv2vob really takes the load of your mind. Thats why i personally like GUI over CLI in this case. (I generally prefer CLI tho)

6. Reply

   Adam

   Posted December 27, 2010 at 11:19 AM

   Thanks for the post mate

7. Reply

   raphael

   Posted January 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM

   Works flawlessly under Mac OS X (WineBottler used). Thanks! ^_^

8. Reply

   Richie

   Posted January 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM

   Worked perfectly, thank you.

9. Reply

   Pete Doidge

   Posted February 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM

   This works fantastically thankyou!

10. Reply

    ktp

    Posted February 12, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Worked great..thanks

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