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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Unless you want to modify the scripts (or need the very latest versions), I suggest starting with the Windows binaries: mobiperl-0.0.26-win.zip
However, the problem may be that your MOBI file is using MobiPocket compression (mobigen's -c1 option) which is not supported by mobi2html. I have seen empty HTML files from mobi2html on such files, and another way to confirm this would be if your DRM-free MOBI is readable by MobiPocket Reader but not readable by FBReader.
Most DRM-free MOBI files use simple (-c0) compression, but some use the -c1 option. I have no idea what fraction of DRM-laden MOBI files use the higher compression option. |
As stated above, I already properly installed ActiveStatePerl and MobiPerl. I did get it to work with a DRM free file I got from MobileRead. But using it to convert a file that was de-DRMed using mobidedrm doesn't seem to work. One or both scripts come up short.
I do wish these guys would start creating executables. Having to install Python, Perl, NameYourStupidScriptingLanguage, etc., then having to attempt to figure out their poorly documented command line sytax is too complicated and time consuming for most people. And in the end, it always seems that the caveats make the whole process a huge waste of time!