Thanks to all who replied, but apart from running Scribe on Wine it looks like a lost cause.
Sorry Craig - I can't provide a sample because we don't have recording software, only Olympus playback software for Windows. The Olympus foot pedal connects to usb or a com port. Nick I'm sure you're right that the pedal just emulates keys, but the hands off control is really essential and I don't think hot keys would work very well. Thanks again, Tom On Monday 10 April 2006 15:49, Craig FALCONER wrote: > Tom: can you record something to a dss file then put it available on a web > page somewhere? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 10 April 2006 3:47 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux > > > 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.
