wine users - Dec 2011 - DirecTV2PC gives errors on install & attempt to open

Hey everyone - I'm a total newb to wine. I'm sorry for this. Hopefully
someone can help me out.

I'm trying to run DirecTV2PC on my mac. It's a program that lets you
watch your satellite TV through your computer.

It won't work via parallels because of the way parallels handles the
"virtual graphic card." Apparently it can be done via bootcamp, but I
don't want to run it that way.

It sounds like it MIGHT work with Wine, but I can't figure it out. This woud
be an awesome app for a lot of mac users.

When I installed it the first time I got an error, I didn't write it down,
but it was something like a "FiltInstaller" error if I remember
correctly. It still LOOKED like it installed, so I tried running it, but got an
error that reads like this:

"The program DIRECTV2PC(TM).exe has encountered a serious problem and needs
to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This can be caused by a problem in
the program or a deficiency in Wine... etc."

Any help would be AWESOME. This is a sweet program, and one a lot of us could
get some good use out of!

Jeremy

weissie20 wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run DirecTV2PC on my mac. It's a program that lets
you watch your satellite TV through your computer.
> 
> It won't work via parallels because of the way parallels handles the
"virtual graphic card." Apparently it can be done via bootcamp, but I
don't want to run it that way.
> 
> It sounds like it MIGHT work with Wine, but I can't figure it out. This
woud be an awesome app for a lot of mac users.
> 
> 
> 
My guess is it probably won't work because of DRM.

You didn't say what Wine version you're using; if it's not the
latest development release, upgrade, and post terminal output.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log