Listening to Daisy Books

[Steve Holmes]

Yeah, I think idair is iduna in some parts - not sure there.  But that
program seemed to work some times but seg faults a lot on me.  It
amazes me that Daisy being an "Open" standard has little or no support
in the Linux world.  I don't understand the specs well enough to try
and get in there and shape one of these readers up but it still bugs
me just the same.  I had listen-up working on some demo material from
over five years ago but none of the new stuff I throw at it works at
all!  Listen-up has what I think to be the best looking curses based
UI but nothing plays these days <sigh>.

Guess I'll sit tight and wait for my new Victor Reader Stream to come
in the mail next week or so.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:12:54AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> 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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