hmmm, if the mac can play ogg files you could slice 33% to 50% off the size of that mp3 file too.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Greg Kearney wrote: > OK here is what I have been able to do. I have taken the soundtrack of the > Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart and bundled it into a DAISY 2.02 book > format. I choose this film because the story is told mainly by means of the > dialog and it was rated for general audiences so that should I ever need to > demonstrate this I could do so to any audience. > > This "book" will announce it's title as all good DAISY books do and then > start playing the soundtrack of the movie as a single audio file. > > Now as I do not have access to the screen play I am not able to add more > navigation. I could split the soundtrack at the DVD chapters if needed for > example. But given that DAISY can remember where you are in the "book" I'm > not sure that having navigation with in a movie is all that necessary. > > Here are the steps I used. > > I used Handbreak to move the film to my hard drive and the used the Mac > program AC3 to convert the MP4 file to an MP3 audio file. This dropped the > size of the soundtrack on a 1 hour 47 minute film to just over 13 megabytes. > > I then hand edited the ncc.html, .smil and other files for the DAISY portion > this wasn't that much of a job as I only had two mp3 files to work with, the > recording of the title and the soundtrack itself. > > The whole file is less than 15 megabytes. Better quality sound would, of > course increase the size but even at the best recording quality it would fit > onto a single CD. > > It plays without problems on a VictorReader, AMIS, TPBreader, the Curtain > experimental Mac reader and validates with the DAISY 2.02 validator. I have > the audio in playable order so it will also play on any CD player which > accepts MP3 files. > > I do not feel that I can send this to anyone as I do not have permission from > either Studio Ghibli, or its English language distributor, Disney to do so. > Should I ever attend any DAISY meetings I would be happy to demonstrate it. > > > Greg Kearney > 535 S. Jackson St. > Casper, Wyoming 82601 > 307-224-4022 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
