Graboid for Ubuntu

I'm trying to install Graboid (A Windows Based Video Downloading program) on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Yes, of course, I've tried WINE, but to no success, I found a forum on the website for graboid...

and it reads...

< have tried to install Graboid on Linux using Wine, and I have been successful to the point that I can open Graboid and search for videos.

If anyone wants to try this out, you just need to install IE6 before you install Graboid and you should be fine.

The problem arises when you try to play videos or download videos. If I press play or download, it says that it is downloading the info and then it gives the error “Error processing download/playback information. (NilObjectException)”

Is there anything you can suggest I do or anything that you can do to make this work better under wine?>

Does anyone know how to get around this Error, or what it even means, YES my WINE is up to date, and YES I've checked for other forums, so far, has posted a solution (I can find anyway), can someone help me out?

Tags: graboid, ubuntu

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Permalink Reply by reaper on June 10, 2009 at 7:26pm: have you tried using vlc?

that handles the videos you can download using graboid....only downside is the transfer limit :(; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheddar on June 11, 2009 at 1:27pm: I don't think that'd work... you have to have a username and password for graboid to work for ya... unless... you know something I don't...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by reaper on June 11, 2009 at 6:03pm: there should be a signup link on the signon page after the software install......least it was there the last time i used it; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheddar on June 13, 2009 at 10:46am: how do I configure VLC to communicate with the graboid server?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by reaper on June 13, 2009 at 11:03am: when vlc is your default media player for all of the file types downloaded it should launch automatically; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TyphoidKitten on June 11, 2009 at 7:40pm: why not get something else? I'm sure there are other video downloaders.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheddar on June 15, 2009 at 6:53pm: you guys don't understand what Graboid is... it's not just a downloader... it's a library of movies...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by reaper on June 15, 2009 at 8:44pm: more like a lazy way to grab movies.......with limits

just stick with torrents :p; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Czr Augusto on June 15, 2009 at 10:50pm: Perhaps it isn't the easiest way but what about trying dual-boot? Since there could be more bugs for running it on wine, maybe one solution is to keep using it natively. I know it'd be great to run everything on Linux but sometimes (in my my case) i just don't have enough time and it's a lot faster to do some things on windows.

On the other hand, since it's about downloading (sth I don't do on Windows for the time I spend on Linux)
I was going to suggest trying a download helper addon, or sticking to torrents, but that is precisely what graboid is for =S.; ▶ Reply to This