Codeweaver installation and opera

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I can honestly say I tried for 3 hours on two machines to load
codeweaver and use it. Quicktime never worked properly.

Media player worked only on one machine but not on avi files.  It needs
a decompresser which only runs with IE, the MS page said.

On one machine media player refused to install, right at the last step. I
was worse off than before I started, since netscape now won't startup
realplayer. I guess I'll have to track that down.

So, they gotta be kidding, right? This isn't ready for prime time.
Joel

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:31:46PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Yeah. I tried on two different computers, and got the same hang with
> quicktime. I cancelled each out and then quicktime ran, even worked a bit,
> but is VERY buggy and essentially useless.
> Well, this must be them, not me, since two different machines had the
> identical problem. I wonder if the problem is that the installer loads
> quicktime 6 whereas codeweaver talks about quicktime 5.
> Why am I not enthused about wine? Do they really think many people are going
> to pay for this sort of buggy software (codeweaver)? I have decided that, if win4lin
> can't do it for you (win4lin actually works), it is really easier and, if
> your time is worth anything, cheaper, to just run a second computer with
> windows side by side with your linux box and use a switch box.  That way you
> can have any windows functionality you want without bending your linux box
> to do things it just ain't designed for.
> Geez.
> Joel
> 
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:08:57PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Monday 09 September 2002 07:22 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > Two questions about installation of codeweaver.
> > > When it asks where to install it, it offers c:\programs or some such, a
> > > windows type directory, from the wine desktop.
> > > What the proper place to install it?
> > 
> > I suspect that's just WINE's c:\program files... I believe it's *really* your 
> > home directory. Anyway, I just accepted the default location. <shrug>
> > 
> > > And, will opera work with this?
> > > And,  a bonus question, does this solve the problem with thin clients
> > > crashing with flashmacromedia?
> > > I ask these things because the installation just hung during quicktime.
> > 
> > Mine seems to hang right after the configuration of Quicktime, when Quicktime 
> > is updating what it thinks is the Windows Registry.
> > 
> > I ran into something like this the last time I tried to install QuickTime and 
> > gave up... Maybe Xine will work good enough...
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > Tim
> > 
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