Yes thank you detlefs, I took your suggestion and it's running great - much better than under Parallels. It crashed during a database backup but I'm trying that again now.

Quoting detlefs:

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After many month running DVDP on a separate Windows machine, I thought I give Wine another try and see if I can get DVDP to run on my Mac.
I decided to try out Wineskin and to my surprise, I found it works nearly perfect.

Wineskin creates a standalone .app that can be started just like a native Mac application.

In Wineskin Winery, I simply downloaded the latest Wrapper version (Wineskin-2.5.3) and Engine (WS8Wine1.3.33), installed the necessary fonts via the included Winetricks (Gecko is installed automatically), installed DVDP and that was it.

So far, I didn't find any issues/bugs/errors.

I'm trying this now and having a few issues. Can I ask what fonts you installed? And did the Gecko part install correctly for you? Mine keeps giving errors, so all the HTML based stuff, like update preview, don't work. Any help appreciated.

Has anyone managed to get the new DVD Profiler 3.8 running on Mac? So far I'm running 3.7 with Wineskin, but for some reason I cant seem to install 3.8 the same way. Updated Wineskin, no success.
Any help?

ok got 3.8 to run I bypass the registration key and just continued, I added the key later on when the program loaded, but not getting my cover art, I did add Tacoma (sic) font from advance winetricks, any ideas?

At first running DVDProfiler in Wine worked worked with a few glitches (it froze sometimes). Then after I added a few movies it froze every time it opened.

Sometimes it freeze on the same thing, adding a specific movie, relocate from wishlist to owned.

I hate to have to buy a Windows license to run this one program in a VM.

Some of the error messages displayed in console:

err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 984 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7dff4eae esp 00230f58 stack 0x230000-0x231000-0x330000

fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 26
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 29
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 103 of group {000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 2315 of group {de4ba900-59ca-11cf-9592-444553540000}
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 35
fixme:ieframe:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec Unimplemented cmdid 28
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x16cdc3c,0x00000000), stub!                                                                                                                         
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:win:AnimateWindow partial stub
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 003c, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0037, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)


I have given up getting DVD Profiler to work under Wine to my satisfaction.

I found after creating the wrap I just drop the exe file into the wrap icon and starts the process, but don't bother at this point wine cant handle 3.8 yet keeps crashing or locking up

Ok can you tell me which version of wine your using and which engine? I've tried and tried but always get the same error. I shouldn't have updated Wine, 3.7 still works fine.

glad it worked for you too, use the lastest updated on wrapper and engine, also works on my Mountain Lion preview os, I do see that it crashes after I use dvdprofiler for a while on either os though. and get errors when I try to backup.