On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:27 +1200 Tom Munro Glass wrote: > My wife does some part time work transcribing Olympus audio files to > Office/OpenOffice documents, but since she became a convert a couple of years > ago, she would much prefer to work exclusively in Linux. I'm looking for some > software to play back Olympus .dss files using a foot pedal to control it, > but so far Google hasn't pointed me in the right direction. > > Anyone know any solutions for this? > > Tom
I looked at these some years ago and IIRC the foot pedal emulated keys on the keyboard, so it should be easy to hack something up that will start stop and short rewind some player software. It would be almost trivial in something like mplayer to re-define the keys that perfomred thjose functions, so that the keyboard emulating footpedal would work. But the problem appears to be to actually get something to play .dss files in linux. I saw a reference to a windows suite that would play the files, and worked in wine here: http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/ I am asking about codecs on the mplayer list, but I am not hopeful. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
