[macvoiceover] Re: Audio only movies

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
> gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
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