Using DVD Decrypter on Ubuntu/Wine

Andrew Williams — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:17:00 +0000

I’ve recently tried to get DVD Decrypter working on Wine, it may seem simple at first, i assure you, its not. Here’s a few quick steps to get you going in the right direction.

Install DVD Decrypter (wine SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe)
Run winecfg, and add the installed DVD Decrypter as an application and set the version to NT4
Go to the Drives tab and hit Autodetect
Remove any unwanted drives but leave your CD drive (should be /media/cdrom0)
Select the CD drive letter from the Drive Mappings box and click Show Advanced
Change Type to CD-ROM and click OK
Open a shell and go to your local wine config dosdevices (.wine/dosdevices)
You should have a existing link for your CD-ROM, now make a softlink for that letter to your physical device, but put a extra colon after the drive letter. (ln -s /dev/hdc g::)
Fire up DVD Decrypter, in the Settings and I/O tab, switch it to SPTI and tick on Show All Devices.

Bar a few minor errors you should detect the drive and be able to use it. This will also work for CrossOffice, but the config directory will be slightly different (.cxoffice/bottlename/)

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Using DVD Decrypter on Ubuntu/Wine