Listening to Daisy Books

[Willem van der Walt]

idair is your best option, but it is not perfect either.
There is apparently a way to get amis to work under Linux, but I am 
waiting for a few months now for more instructions on how to do so from 
the developers.
Regards, Willem

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Hey, I've been wondering lately, does anyone on the list here read any
> books in the Daisy format under the Linux platform? If so, what player
> are you using? I've tried listen-up, iduna, and daisyconsole all with
> failing results.  either I get seg faults all over the place or the
> player just sits there and does nothing.  I like the looks of
> listen-up the best but it hasn't played a single book I've tried it
> with.  I'm mainly dealing with the 2.02 format with audio files and
> some books I've created using dtbmaker perl scripts.  I took a look at
> the daisy player in emacspeak but that apparently only works with
> bookshare books but I didn't have much luck with it either on one book
> I tried on it.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.
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