Peter,
I unfortunately have not tried these same books/files on the VR Stream, so
I
cannot compare apples to apples. However, I have opened text files on the
VR that were a meg in size, and it opens them within 2 seconds. I have
also
done a lot of navigation within all sorts of DAISY books with the VR, and
again, the navigation has been instantaneous. The VR does sometimes take
5-10 seconds to open large DAISY books, but that is the extent of a delay
I
have noticed.
Even if you listen to the podcast at Blind Cool Tech that compares the 5
NLS
players, you will notice that in the sample book that is being
demonstrated,
it takes the Booksense a while to open it, while the VR Stream opens it
within a second.
I will now try to go to bookshare and see if I can download the two books
from the online training, though I do not believe the Stream can play brf
files at this time. But I will see if I can try the DAISY versions of
those
books.
Once I have it bench marked, I will report back.
Suleyman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Torpey" <[email protected]>
To: "'Suleyman Gokyigit'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:18 PM
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] Issues Noted in GW Micro's Online Training of
October 23, 2009
In regard to your comments below about the speed with which the book Sense
either opens a book or navigates to a new section:
1. Is this true of the Victor Stream also? This sounds like an excessive
amount of time to wait just to open a book or switch sections. With
proper
use of file pointers, indexing, and buffering, there is no reason this
shouldn't be very snappy. What is the benchmark data here for other
similar
devices? I've never experienced such sluggishness even on my aging
Bookport.
2. Will the next upgrade be fixing these issues? These sound like pretty
serious limitations.
-----Original Message-----
From: Suleyman Gokyigit [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GW-Booksense] Issues Noted in GW Micro's Online Training of
October 23, 2009
I already posted this as part of another thread, but I thought I'd post it
again here under its own subject line, as I have received some emails from
folks privately expressing further interest into the issues I raised.
First, I am referring to the online training that is posted as a recording
on GW Micro's website at the following link:
http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Presentations/audio/BookSenseOnli
neTraining10-23-09.mp3
In this recording, there are three things that I have identified as worthy
of a second look:
First, at time index 33:05:
Here, Raul is about to hit play on the music folder, "Cyndi Lauper -
Greatest Hits". The expected behavior is for the Booksense to start
playing
all the tracks in this folder, starting from the first one.
Unfortunately,
it does not do this; the first track in this folder is the track "True
Colors," but the Booksense starts to play the second track first, "Girls
Just Want to Have Fun." At time index 33:13, Raul hits the right arrow to
play the second track, and it moves to the song, "True Colors," which is
in
fact the first song, not the second song.
We can in fact see that "True Colors" is the first song in the folder at
time index 38:41 when Raul hits the 0 key, and the Booksense announces the
name of the file. The name of the file is "00 - True Colors.mp3."
Clearly
the track beginning with 00 is the first song, not the second song. So it
would appear the Booksense incorrectly played the second song as the
first.
One final note on this point of playing the songs in the incorrect order:
In
the Booksense unveiling recording from June, also posted on the same page
at
GW Micro's website:
http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Presentations/audio/booksenseunve
iling.mp3
Raul does the same demonstration where he hits play on the exact same
Cyndi
Lauper - Greatest Hits folder, and this time, the Booksense plays True
Colors as the first track, not the second (See time index 29:05 in the
unveiling recording). Therefore, there is a definite problem.
Next thing to note on the online training recording is at time index
41:18:
Here, Raul has the book, "Wheel of Time, Book 11," open and is instructing
the Booksense to move to heading number 6. It takes the unit
approximately
20 seconds (from time index 41:25 to 41:45) to move to this heading. This
seems like a ridiculous amount of time to me; it should be instantaneous
or
very close to it.
Third thing to note on the recording is at time index 46:36:
Here, Raul is opening the Transformers book which is in .brf format. He
is
using the document application to do this. I timed it, and it took the
Booksense 40 seconds to open the file (from approximate time index 46:53
until time index 47:33), and you can easily see this too by looking at the
time index as the Booksense opens the file.
Sorry if this was a bit long, but I wanted to clearly document the
behaviors
that I noticed that give me some pause as to the Booksense's operation.
Comments are welcome.
Suleyman
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