The NLS is not permitting software playback at this time. Only
hardware players, and right now that is limited to the Victor Reader
Stream and the NLS player can render NLS books. This is due to the
encryption used both on the audio and DAISY files.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:34 AM, hank smith wrote:
what about the nls format? can this be played on any software play
windows or mac or just the victor stream currently?
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Subject: Re: OT: DAISY players for Windows?
There are a whole bunch of DAISY playback software for Windows.
AMIS is free and not bad it is at: http://amis.sourceforge.net/
VictorReader Soft a commercial player is good:
http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/digital_talking_books/software/_details/id_62/victor_reader_soft.html
Humanware make a Mac version of VictorReader Soft that is sold
through RFB&D only. It is very limited, only plays DAISY 2.02 books
and quite expensive.
GHplayer which I consider one of the better commercial players can
be found at: http://www.ghbraille.com/ghplayer.html
TAB Player from the Thai Association for the Blind can be found at
http://www.daisynow.net/tabplayer/english/index.html
The Curtain Player, the Macintosh player I am working on with the
students from Curtain University in Perth will be open source and
free.
Because you are in Australia and the books you would be using will
likely originate with Vision Australia you should be able to use
any of the free players such as AMIS for this. Vision Australia is
not using any encryption on their books to my understanding.
This means that you could use standard MP3 enabled CD players or
other MP3 devices for playback as the books from Vision Australia,
RNIB, CNIB and books produced with my DTBmaker program all retain
the audio files in playback order. A MP3 enable CD player will not
have the navigation, bookmarking and so on but its cost should be
well under A$ 50.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
Sorry for the off-topic post, I don't know anywhere else to find
a bunch of people who will know this! I am some official thing
and need details of what the most commonly used software DAISY
players are in Windows. Is there one that virtually everybody
uses, or is it spread between a lot of them? Bonus brownie points
if you know the website for the programs, but I can Google them
if not.
Also, this DAISY player that Greg Kearney and company are working
on, is it going to be free or commercial when it's done? If the
latter, does anybody know the costs?
The paper I'm writing is about how the library should loan
software players to members who would prefer them to the hardware
players they already offer for loan. I thought putting actual
examples and costs would point out that buying licenses for DAISY
player software is probably a lot cheaper than the AU$300
hardware players they are lending!
r
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