Stream ABC.com on Linux with Wine

This HOW-TO will help you if you have interest in watching the full episodes of TV shows that are provided on sites like ABC, CBS, etc by showing you how to install MovePlayer for Windows on Linux with some help from WINE.

WARNING: This requires lots of horse power. I've been monitoring load when I watch media, and it looks like it's mostly xorg which leads me to believe that some work needs to be done in Wine to better integrate with XV or OpenGL for media playback. I hope to script this, and get that up here for everyone to download, but until then here are the steps involved. Note, I did this on Gutsy so your mileage on other platforms will probably vary. If you are successful though, please leave a comment with anything that you did differently.

Step 1:
First, grab the MS Core fonts .exe packages from sourceforge
[ HERE ]. These are Windows core fonts so I recommend installing all of them.

Download them all to a temp directory, Open a shell and CD to that directory, then run the following:

for item in *exe; do wine $item; done

For each of these, click through the EULA, and click the close button. They will all start automatically one by one. If you accidently downloaded the MS Office 97 Viewer (wd97vwr32.exe), you can skip that one.

Step 2:
Grab the latest Mozilla Firefox for Windows [ HERE ]
Install Firefox using wine

Step 3:
Go to [ http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing ]
Click the watch now button

Step 4:
Install flash using the link provided by ABC.

Step 5:
Return to [ http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing ]
Click the watch now button
Install Move Media Player by following the on screen instructions.
Restart when prompted

Step 6:
Watch TV Shows