Re: [orca-list] improving dbr daisy book reader

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yes, it only plays from cd.

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> On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:55 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
>
> hi
> I've herad of that one. From the description it looks like it's command line only, whereas this one has a 
> gtk gui. I 
> think I had that one installed in ubuntu once, and it only plays daisy 2.02 books from cd, and cannot play 
> a local book 
> though I could be wrong about that. 
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:50:05PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> > kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> > > hi all
> > > I've been after a few people to write a daisy player for linux, but no one seems in any great hurry to do 
> > > it, so I'm 
> > > planning to write one myself.
> >
> > there's already a Daisy player in Debian. I'm not trying to discourage you
> > from writing one if you have features in mind that aren't available from the
> > existing player. I think there's one in Emacspeak as well, and another (sorry
> > - can't remember the name) as a Firefox extension.
> >
> > Here are the package details.
> >
> >
> > Package: daisy-player
> > New: yes
> > State: installed
> > Automatically installed: no
> > Multi-Arch: foreign
> > Version: 8.7.0-1
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: sound
> > Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibility lists debian org>
> > Architecture: amd64
> > Uncompressed Size: 317 k
> > Depends: madplay, udisks2, unar, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcdio-cdda1 (>= 0.83),
> >         libcdio-paranoia1 (>= 0.83), libcdio13 (>= 0.83), libmagic1 (>= 5.12),
> >         libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20070908), libsox2 (>= 14.4.0), libtinfo5, libxml2
> >         (>= 2.7.4)
> > Recommends: libcddb-get-perl
> > Description: player for DAISY Digital Talking Books
> > Daisy-player is a command-line player for talking books based on the Digital
> > Accessible Information System protocol. It is comparable in functionality,
> > features, and ease of use with commercial players, and has a simple user
> > interface appropriate for Braille terminals.
> > Homepage: http://jlemmens.nl/
> >
> > Tags: accessibility::TODO, implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode,
> >      role::program, scope::utility, sound::player, uitoolkit::ncurses,
> >      use::learning, use::playing, works-with-format::mp3, works-with::audio
> >
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