The NLS players have not been released yet. It is my understanding
that when they are, sometime in 2008-09 they will first be given to
blinded veterans before slowly being sent to the rest of us.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:43 AM, hank smith wrote:
besides the library where else can I get the nls player?
the victor reader is a bit out of my budjet currently.
thanks
Hank
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Subject: Re: OT: DAISY players for Windows?
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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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:30 PM
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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