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This text document addresses various application support questions
received on the linux resource web site. If you asked the question, the
answer may be provided here!
Submission: My spell checker is not working in Ximian Evolution 1.2.2
Date: Tue Nov 9 19:24:53 CST 2004
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"The Evolution mail composer uses the gnome-spell tool to highlight
misspelled words on the fly as you type them, and give you suggestions
for possible corrections. To turn on spell checking you need to verify
that the required software is installed then configure Evolution.
Required software:
aspell
pspell
gnome-spell
aspell dictionary
Click on Tools- >Settings->Composer
Preferences->Spell Checking. Select the language that you would like the
use and click on Enable.
Submission: Unable to play the .dat files from a VCD using mplayer 0.9rc5
Date: Sun Dec 12 21:12:15 CST 2004
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"has anyone tried to play vcd .dat files in mplayer?" was answered on a forum
incorrectly, "Yep, it's known it doesn't work. The problem is in the kernel,
not mplayer." It _is_ possible to play VCD's using mplayer 0.9. This was
accomplished using mplayer on a Redhat 9.0 system. Ok, it's true that there's
a logical kernel limitation preventing the read of a vcd .dat file (see below)
For this example a VCD 1 cd is in an IDE cdrom drive on /dev/hdc. This video
cd has only one track with the movie as avseq01.dat.
Open xterm/konsole and at the shell prompt type the following:
mplayer vcd://1 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
(vcd://1 <- play track one of the "-cdrom-device" vcd in your cdrom drive.)
It is not necessary to mount the cdrom device because in this example mplayer
is not accessing a 'file' but rather using raw device access. The default
VCD device is /dev/cdrom. If your setup differs, make a symlink or specify
the correct device on the command line with the -cdrom-device option.
The .dat file that is visible is actually an "iso gateway" which exists to
allow MS Windows access. Direct raw device access is forbidden in Microsoft
Windows operating systems. Linux cannot copy or play iso gateway files with
the standard iso9660 driver of the Linux kernel. There are alternatives,
research the Linux version of PowerDVD or cdfs for more information.
Here are some more useful mplayer command line operations:
mplayer filename (open a video or audio file)
mplayer filename -subfile filename.sub (video file with subtitles)
mplayer -vcd (open a vcd track)
mplayer -o vesa -cache 8192 -fs -dvd (play dvd using vesa mode)
mplayer -framedrop (fix slow hardware related video skips)
Submission: How to play a DVD using mplayer.
Date: Sun Dec 12 22:02:47 CST 2004
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Using mplayer to play a DVD:
mplayer -dvd
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