[macvoiceover] Re: Olearia first public release (version 0.90b)
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:05:25 -0400
Hi Jacob and all,
To my knowledge, the only players that are currently allowed for nls dtbs
are the Braille plus, the Icon and the victor reader stream. These players
are nothing like pcs which have according to nls inherent security flaws
which make them risky for their formats and they also claim that the
resources to produce an adaquate player for windows are not available.
Someone correct me if I am rong or jump in to ad any additional info. As
far as I know, they have not spoken at all to the Mac issue. There is a faq
on their site and players plans as they are known are covered.
I will say though that there is some hope that it will be possible to play
nls dtbs on the Ipod but there is no official word from either Apple which
we should expect to be the case nor from NLS which if we do get, won't be
for a while due to the processes that need to happen in order for something
like this to happen. I'm waiting for public info on this development with
great anticipation!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Olearia first public release (version 0.90b)
NLS will *never* be an option, at least not until they relinquish
their idiotic stance to not allow playback of their books on any
computer, be it PC or Mac. This is more than a bit frustrating, as I
absolutely refuse to buy another player for their books as for all
other purposes I don't need or want another one. Interestingly they
allow certain notetakers. Does anyone know why they're restricting
access to their books like this? We can throw around endless
speculations--I've got some of my own--but anyone around here know the
true reason for it?
On Oct 28, 2008, at 13:40, 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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