How do I get a SlingBox/SlingPlayer working?

Question

How can I get my SlingPlayer/SlingBox setup to work on my 10.10 install? I don't know if using Wine will work or if VM will work. This is almost the only reason I flip back to Windows on my Dual Boot Machine. Thanks.

Solution

A VM should certainly work, I've used it for SlingPlayer in the past and there were no problems.

There is also evidence that you can get the player going with Wine on Ubuntu:

See: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14848&iTestingId=53229

The test results are for 10.04, but you should have similar results with 10.10.

If you're not very comfortable with Wine, you can take a look at the commercial adaptation of Wine, called CrossOver. Here is their page on SlingPlayer 2.0 compatibility:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=5611

Comments

[Gaurav Bindal]

Since you have dual boot, you can try it first and then tell us if you have a problem?

[Admin]

@steabert - I tried Wine prior to asking the question. However I could not get the install to finish successfully. Thus my question. @Mark Russell - Thank you for the suggestion regarding CrossOver. I will try that and post my results for future user queries.