Automating Bookshare

[Alex Snow]

That wouldn't be so hard to do...I just forget the correct 
syntax...but as long as you have mencoder from Mplayer you can do it 
easily from the command line
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Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:53:59PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
> That's one of those things I hate about Microsoft as well. I have a program 
> that records TV for me off a tuner card, and I'd like to run something as 
> the command after the recording finishes that would convert the mpeg-2 video 
> into .wav or some other audio. I don't think I could find a script for 
> Windows, much less Linux, that would convert all the .mpg's in one folder to 
> .wav's in another and then delete the original video files.
> 
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> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Automating Bookshare
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> > Hey thanks for the script; I forget how powerful lftp is sometimes.
> > However, I don't think this will work with Bookshare as they use what
> > looks like CGI links to invoke the downloaded items also, they use a
> > standard login form to get logged in.  I looked at the wget man page
> > and figured out a possible solution but it still doesn't work for me.
> > I have to runs of wget.  The first establishes the login or it is
> > supposed to.  It also saves cookies so they can be picked up with the
> > second pass of wget. The second pass tries to get the actual newspaper
> > issue.  The first pass appears to run dispite warnings about
> > certificate validation problems but the second pass still gives me an
> > error page claiming I wasn't logged in so for whatever reason, the
> > login sequence isn't working.  It obviously works when I do it
> > manually.
> >
> > Now since lftp supports http, there might be something there for me;
> > I'll have to see what happens with the CGI link.  I obviously can't us
> > get/mget for this situation.  I'm curious as to how the Level Star
> > folks do it for the Icon.
> >
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