Which is rather interesting since the Icon and Braille Plus can play
these formats. I would have to say this is unfair as it limits or even
I'd go as far to say stifles competition. This forces people to use
only those approved solutions and that is very much unfair. After all,
if Apple were to lets say make it possible to play NLS content on the
iPod, it would be less expensive than purchasing the Humanware product
as an example.
I think it would be very much worth developing a letter that we could
send to Congress. I think I'll have to dig into the law surrounding
all this.
On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi,
Thanks, Greg. The NLS restriction came up earlier in discussion of
Katieplayer. Here's the link to the NLS strategic business plan:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/businessplan/2003.html
In the section titled "DTB Player and medium design contract", they
allowed only for one specific player device and PC-based software
only (contracted directly by NLS...HumanWare has been awarded this
contract...so software and device for NLS playback can come only
from HumanWare).
Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 28, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
An important note: Olearia, and for that matter no other software
based player, can not play NLS books. THis is due to the NLS
refusing to approve software players to have access to their
encryption.
We are working with RFB&D to be able to ply their encrypted books
and expect a solution to that soon.
If you are bothered by the NLS restriction on playback of their
books I would urge you to contact your representatives in congress.
Greg Kearney
Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
www.cucat.org
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
Which format are the DTBs from the NLS Digital program, and does
this program play them? I normally play them on my Icon, but
would play them on this machine if that were an option.
Thanks,
Dave
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:
Thanks Greg. It plays any of the dtbs I have tried so far. Keep
up the good work.
Randy
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
Olearia is a DAISY digital talking book player for the Macintosh
computer platform. Olearia will play DAISY version 2.02 and
DAISY/NISO 2005 digital talking book. This version 0.90b will
play audio only and full text full audio books. The final
version of Olearia will support text only DAISY books as well.
Olearia supports VoiceOver. Olearia requires MacOS X version
10.5 or better.
Olearia is free open source software and can be downloaded from http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia
Source code can be downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/olearia/
Greg Kearney
Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
www.cucat.org
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