MemoriesonWeb with WINE

Wow, combining memories and wine...no seriously, that's exactly Dan Kegel does in this email to me (and WINE folks). He's acting on a blog entry that I wrote a few hours ago on a digital storytelling tool that works on Win98, and may work on GNU/Linux...but now, there's no "may" about it. His comments appear in blue, command line stuff are in blockquotes:

In http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/archives/2007/08/entry_3550.htm, Miguel Guhlin asked how to install MemoriesOnWeb and its recommended codecs under Wine, so here goes. All I did was translate his instructions to wine-ese.

1. Download xvid for windows from http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html, install it the obvious way:

$ wine XviD-1.1.3-28062007.exe

2. Download lame from http://www.free-codecs.com/LAME_ACM_Codec_download.htm, install it the completely non-obvious way (this is the commandline equivalent of right clicking on the .inf file and choosing Install From):

$ unzip lameACM-3.97-final.zip
$ wine rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 LameACM.inf

3. Download the app from http://www.codejam.com/slideshow/mow.htm, install it the obvious way:

$ wine mow317cnet.exe

The app seems to run. I've no idea whether the codecs are recognized; Miguel, perhaps you can try it and file a bug report at http://bugs.winehq.org if it doesn't work.

I'll try this out on UbuntuLinux tomorrow. Back to sleep for now. Thanks, Dan!