One of the reasons I asked was because out of all of the DVDs we have
bought, none of them provide Described Video! The only mainstream movie I
even heard of that did was "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". I think they
even made the main menu accessible. I recognize the site. That is the PBS
Station in Boston. They basically invented Described Video Service (DVS)
nostly or entirely with government grants. They also provided all of the
narration services on those movies they sell.
I have not played a DVD with a DV audio track, so I can not say for sure how
to do this. I do have some ideas based on similar tasks. Do you have the
accessible version of VLC Player 0.8.6i? It is available on their website
in their FTP archive of old versions. It allows you to change the language
through the menus. I do not think any menu system will actually call the
alternate track Described Video. The DVD format is lousy for these purposes
due to the fact that they refuse to provide any information, such as labels,
for language tracks, menus, or chapters. You will probably need to just try
all of the other available languages. Spanish is always my first attempt,
since these two are commonly interchanged in the broadcast TV areana
historically. Ideally find a Player that switches between all available
audio tracks on the DVD. I think this is the Control + l hotkey in PowerDVD
from CyberLink. I do not recommend this for JAWS users, since the last time
I tried this product, it was not usable as long as JAWS was installed.
At 3 am here, I can not get to any DVDs. Look in these menus for switching
language tracks.
Windows Media Player: Play > CD/DVD Audio submenu
VLC Player Audio menu
Without the DVD, these menus are not available. I will check my DVS notes
to see if I wrote down the VLC hotkey to rotate through all available
languages.
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Mark Torgerson" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:24 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Discriptive Video on my Computer
Hi Don,
The following is a link where one can find DVD's using Descriptive
video. However, I am still wanting to know how to play them on my
computer.
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/alldvsmovies.htmlv
Any help is appreciated.
God bless,
Mark
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