Hi Try smplayer. This remembers the position you stopped and will will restart from that position.
John Eayrs On Sunday 07 June 2009 15:11:50 Sean Gibbins wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Well OT I know, but I am always astounded by the depth and breadth of > knowledge on the list, so you are my first port of call on this one. > > Essentially my father is totally blind and regularly reads audio books. > He prefers cassettes because of the ease of operation of cassette decks > and the fact that they restart playback where you leave off. > > Unfortunately his main supplier has just announced they are going over > to CD-only releases from the end of the month, so we are looking for a > technological solution to the problem. > > We know that some CD players will resume from where playback ended - > in-car CD players do this - but we don't know if this functionality is > available in conventional CD players. Has anyone come across this? If so > which brands and types are likely to provide this functionality? It > occurred to me to mail Sony, Panasonic, etc., with this question, and > that's my next action if this query goes unanswered. > > It also occurs to me that my digital media player also has this > functionality, but accessing it is accomplished by navigating on-screen > menus which robs my father of the ability to independently read, so a > bit of a non-starter. > > There is also a proprietary solution to the CD-based player out there, > but I believe that it is expensive and limiting in terms of the material > that is available. > > Finally I guess it would not be impossible to make a CD player from an > in-car CD player that includes this functionality. How hard and/or > expensive would it be to rig a PSU to power it from the mains? Can > anyone see any obvious pitfalls to this approach? > > Sean > > -- > www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
