Hi Shane, Yeh, unfortunately they are encrypted ... The mp3s read just fine, but here's an easy way to tell: try opening up one of the .html files. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:51 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Trouble with listen-up On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:21:33AM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > RFB&D protects their daisy books with a propriotary encryption algorithm ... > Does RNIB do the same? Hmm, I'm not certain. Do you know how to tell? I tried playing a couple of the mp3s using mpg321 and they play alright. I thought Daisy was working on copy protection, didn't realize they were there yet. > Good luck with this problem: I'd be interested in getting a solution > to it, as I think it may lead to one, hopefully, for reading RFB&D > daisy formats without having to pay them for the software and/or > hardware, which I find ridiculous. Indeed, I thought the Daisy spec was completely open and I found no reference to encryption therein. http://www.daisy.org/publications/specifications/daisy_202.html If that is actually the case and I'm not missing something, I would argue that the rfbd titles are not Daisy compatible. -- Shane Wegner http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
