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JCK

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JCK
May 11, 2004
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Totem, mplayer, VLC and Kaffeine all support subtitles. It's up to you to install Arabic fonts in the system and find the right .srt or .sub file for your movies. Then you're all done.
 

SlimValdi

Junior Member
Dec 28, 2002
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Totem, mplayer, VLC and Kaffeine all support subtitles. It's up to you to install Arabic fonts in the system and find the right .srt or .sub file for your movies. Then you're all done.
well i got the right .srt file and already readable using OpenOffice, but in the player the text is unreadable (like wrong encoding) went in the options but nothing is there!!

but if you can kindly advise how to install arabic fonts that will be much appretiated.
 

JCK

Biased
JCK
May 11, 2004
125,388
well i got the right .srt file and already readable using OpenOffice, but in the player the text is unreadable (like wrong encoding) went in the options but nothing is there!!

but if you can kindly advise how to install arabic fonts that will be much appretiated.
Try opening it in VLC or mplayer, I haven't used Totem ever. But installing fonts varies from distro to another, what distro are you on?
 

Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
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So we are 10 *nix users on the forum...despite Vlakto voted Windows...Why man why??

I bet we can get a couple of the Windows user to migrate...notably Ze, he showed interest but nobody really took him through it.

And Phrozen, what the hell are you using??
 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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So we are 10 *nix users on the forum...despite Vlakto voted Windows...Why man why??
because i think the original name of this thread was "what is your primary OS?", or that thread was merged into this one, so i voted for windows as i must use it at work and a lot of times from home. ubuntu is still my fav though. :toast:
 

Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
8,065
Oh god... I mistakenly formatted my 200 GB drive, with all the multimedia and Juventus matches, videos, material!! Accumlated material of 3 years!!!

I thought it was the thumb drive and formatted using qtparted. Whats even worse I wrote on it, again thinking its the pen drive!!

Help guys!! How the hell could I retrieve my precious Media!!!
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
56,913
Ah, baptism by fire, what every linux user will go through at least once :smile:

What you can do depends on your filesystem. Google ext3 recovery etc to find out, the topic has been covered in great detail by many people who've done the same thing.

As a rule of thumb, formatting doesn't kill the files, but writing on top of them will. So those parts of the disk that haven't been written to after formatting should be recoverable, in theory.
 

Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
8,065
Well it's a 200 GB drive, and I wrote only 600 MB, I could spare that amount don't want it! take it! just gimme back my 199.4 GB back!!

Well Martin it wasn't ext3, it was FAT 32 or 16 can't really remember!! Ill try to google that...
 

gray

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Apr 22, 2003
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(By the way, does anyone not use G-Scripts? Pure gold.)


Sounds like a killer Ramsi :cry:

I did a similar thing when I was transferring a whole bunch of stuff using my 80GB iPod. I put everything on it, then somewhere along the way I decided to flash Rockbox onto my iPod, not realising that it's compatible with every single iPod model except for mine, resulting in my iPod shutting down and becoming unresponsive.

In a stroke of genius, I decided to fix it by opening iTunes and clicking "Repair", not realising that repairing it involved formatting the device.

All the photos I'd taken in the past year... gone :disagree: Everything else I didn't really care about because it wasn't personal stuff, but I'm obsessed with taking photos, and I can't stand losing them...

In other news, I finally got sick of not being able to use Photoshop, and got WinXP dual booting with Ubuntu. I'd previously had the strangest problem, whereby booting from the Windows CD and proceeding to install would cause my laptop to shut down without warning or explanation. I have absolutely no idea why this potential solution occurred to me, but I decided to try plugging in my external DVD burner and booting the Windows CD using it... and it... just worked :toast:

Another thing... I was being a bit too stingy when I only allocated 5GB to my Windows partition. Given my current partitioning setup, how should I go about giving it more room? Especially given what we've just been talking about, I'm a little wary of messing around with my partitions :oops:

 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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Well it's a 200 GB drive, and I wrote only 600 MB, I could spare that amount don't want it! take it! just gimme back my 199.4 GB back!!

Well Martin it wasn't ext3, it was FAT 32 or 16 can't really remember!! Ill try to google that...
r-studio is the best recovery program for windows partitions. it's really good though a little complicated. i don't know much you will be able to save, especially if the drive wasn't defragmented regulary, but i wouldn't hold my breath for anything over 30%. when i had the same problem i was able to recover only some things, bigger files over 300mb very rarely, the problem was a fragmented drive, it makes things a lot harder.

good luck.
 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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@ gray, i'm no expert but i don't think you will be able to resize the windows partition without deleting the extended partition because they are not the same file type system. you could try resizing your hda7 partition to 35gb and leave the rest as unallocated space. perhaps than you could resize your windows partition with that unallocated space.

though my suggestion would be backing up everything, reformatting the drive and doing things properly. :D meaning giving XP 10-15gb and leave the rest to linux. key thing is installing XP first than ubuntu later, ubuntu will easily recognize XP and set up GRUB properly.
 

Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
8,065
r-studio is the best recovery program for windows partitions. it's really good though a little complicated. i don't know much you will be able to save, especially if the drive wasn't formatted regulary, but i wouldn't hold my breath for anything over 30%. when i had the same problem i was able to recover only some things, bigger files over 300mb very rarely, the problem was a fragmented drive, it makes things a lot harder.

good luck.
Ok Great just checked their website, and found out its not open source, which brings back to really bad nightmares more than a year ago of searching for programs on phazeddl.com and crack.am :disagree:

You know what I want...PM me ;)
 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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Ok Great just checked their website, and found out its not open source, which brings back to really bad nightmares more than a year ago of searching for programs on phazeddl.com and crack.am :disagree:

You know what I want...PM me ;)
i don' think i have it anymore, will check when i get home. in the meantime :google:
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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(By the way, does anyone not use G-Scripts? Pure gold.)
Sounds useful, I don't run gnome tho. Tend to write my own scripts when I need them.

In a stroke of genius, I decided to fix it by opening iTunes and clicking "Repair", not realising that repairing it involved formatting the device.
Don't you just love it when companies decide what "easy to use" means?


Rami: At least fat32 is a simple filesystem, that's a big advantage. A few years ago I was reading a story of a guy who lost 200gb of work for his clients when an ntfs volume died and he ended up coding an app that could recover files. After I read that, I decided never to use ntfs for my files.
 

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