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Begin forwarded message:
From: Travis Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 12, 2006 10:29:26 PM CST
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by the blind <[email protected]>
Reply-To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of
Mac OS X by the blind <[email protected]>
Hello everyone.
I've finally gotten something working that I think you'll find
interesting.
I've taken one of the apple samples from the adc, and made it
completely accessible with a bit of help from a friend who was
visiting this weekend. The program is a dvd player, and while it
doesn't give you the name of the dvd like apple's dvd player does, it
does give you 100% control over the control of playing your dvd the
way you want it played.
There's actually two windows when you run the softcon dvd player.
One is the viewing window, where he movies are shown, the other one
is where the controls are kept.
You can play, pause, stop, and eject the disk. You can also scan
forward/backword, go forward/backward by scene, set and go to
bookmarks, and there's even status items to tell you what title
number is playing, and which scene within that title you're on.
There's also a toggle display there giving either the elapsed time of
the dvd's current selection, or if you click this time display (use a
shift-control-command-space bar) you'll change it to how much time is
left in the current title. I know most of these options are there
too in the apple provided dvd player, but as far as I know, we can't
get at these kinds of things. With this player, you can see
everything on it, and there's even a button to change camera angle if
the current title supports it.
Volume control is there too, and the menu/title button will take you
back to the selection menu so you can choose something else to
watch. Give it a try, and let me know what you'd like to see added
to it, or if you find something that doesn't work.
For the moment, I'm going to try to add a few things to it, but not
much of the interface will change, since XTools is such a pain to
work with. I may add additional features if they can be added though
w/o too much difficulty. Straight code isn't a problem, only
interface items, so download it, and give it a try.
It's currently located at:
http://member.mac.com/windowbridge.
Thanks, and I certainly hope this helps someone.
