ftp download? God that could take forever depending on how big the book is, and what if your fire wall doesn't support it?
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <gkear...@gmail.com> To: "Iain Murray" <i.mur...@exchange.curtin.edu.au>; "Keith Reedy" <keithre...@joink.com>; <macvoiceo...@freelists.org>; <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>; "Christopher Lee" <le...@uga.edu>; "Kathy McWhorter" <kmcwh...@uwyo.edu>; "David Vosnacos" <dav...@guidedogswa.com.au>; "Chris Whitelock" <chr...@guidedogswa.com.au>; "Mary Beth Janes" <mja...@apple.com>; "Technical Developments Discussion List" <technical-developme...@mail.daisy.org>; <cy...@cypac.co.jp> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:15 AM Subject: VOD a DAISY player for iPhone/iPod Touch >I have been testing VOD a DAISY playback software for the iPhone/iPod > Touch here is my report: > > VOD will play only unencrypted DAISY 2.02 full audio and full text > full audio books. It displays the text on the screen and highlights > what is being read. It will also display images. It will not paly NLS > or RFB&D books nor can it read text only DAISY books. > > VOD will only play books through the earphones and not the built in > speakers which is rather odd. It does not support speeding up the > playback. You load books to the iPhone by means of FTP transfer which > is rather clever. In effect your iPhone becomes an FTP server with a > username and password you configure you then use an FTP client on your > computer to load or remove books in directories to the phone. It works > very well. > > Accessibility could be complete with VoiceOver if the developer would > label all the buttons on the interface which they have not, for some > reason done. I have reported this to them. > > The biggest issue is that this program always starts over at the > beginning of the book each time you go to a book. This is a major > issue which seriously impacts it usefulness to the reader and must be > address before I can suggest this program to anyone. Again I have > reported this issue to the developer and I would hope that they > address this, and the lack of bookmarking as well which are related to > each other. > > All and all VOD is a good start to DAISY playback on the iPhone iPhone/ > iPod Touch but not ready for real use until the play back position and > book marking issues are addressed. > > Gregory Kearney > Manager Accessible Media > Association for the Blind of Western Australia > 61 Kitchener Ave > Victoria Park, WA 6100' > AUSTRALIA > +61 08 9311 8246 > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
