[harpsichord]

I'm confused.

It seems like you're going through an awful lot of contortions just to get data you already have access to, unless you just have a hardon for GSpot. The program you mentioned in your first post, mediainfo, works just fine in Karmic and provides all the data you would need to seed (as do several other open-source tools). No muss, no fuss, no Wine, no VM's needed.

I thought that was kinda the point of you bringing it up. Why all the cartwheels to get GSpot to tell you the same thing? Seems mega-redundant to me, and a shitload more work.