daisy-player(1) 						Unix user's manual						   daisy-player(1)

NAME

       daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books

SYNOPSIS

       daisy-player [directory_with_a_Daisy-structure] [-d ALSA_sound_device]

DESCRIPTION

       Daisy-player reads a Daisy-CD and plays the audio-files.  DAISY version 2.02 and 3 are currently supported.

       A  list	of items on the Daisy-CD will appear. Press <ENTER> to start playing. When reading of an item has finished, daisy-player will play
       the next item and the cursor will automatically skip to that item, so that an attached braille-terminal will display the name of that item.

       Daisy-player supports the following languages: english, german and dutch.

OPTIONS

       directory_with_a_Daisy-structure
	      One could also give a directory with a daisy structure as argument to daisy-player.

       -d ALSA sound device
	      Daisy-player will play on this sound device. Default is "default".

SCREEN

       The name and version of this program and the name of the author will be displayed left aligned at the top of the screen. The  name  of  the
       current loaded book will be displayed right aligned.

       The second row of the screen will display the number of pages of the current loaded book (if any), the current selected level and the total
       number of levels, the total playing time, the current displayed screen and the total number of screens.

       The next rows will display the title of the item, the first page of the item within brackets (if there are pages)  and  the  playing  time.
       Items  in  higher  levels will be indented. (Three spaces each level.) When "just playing this item" is active, a "J" will be viewed at the
       first column of that item.

CONTROL KEYS

       Daisy-player recognizes the following keyboard-commands:

       cursor down
	      move cursor to the next item

       cursor up
	      move cursor to the previous item

       cursor right
	      skip to next phrase

       cursor left
	      skip to previous phrase

       page-down
	      view next screen

       page-up
	      view previous screen

       enter  Start playing

       space  pause/resume playing

       home   play on normal speed

       /      search for a label

       d      store current item to disk

       D      decrease playing speed

       e      stop playing and eject

       f      find the currently playing item and place the cursor there

       g      go to page number (if any)

       h or ? give this help

       j      just play current item and place a "J" at the first column.

       l      switch to next level

       L      switch to previous level

       n      search forewards

       N      search backwards

       o      select next output sound device

       p      place a bookmark

       q      quit daisy-player. The playing-point will be saved as bookmark.

       s      stop playing

       U      increase playing speed

FILES

       ~/.daisy-player/
	      This directory contains the bookmarks. Each file has the name of the book and contains the name of the current item, the	start-time
	      of that item and the current level, each on a own line.

       ~/.daisy-player.rc
	      This file contains the name of the desired audio device and the desired playing speed.

AUTHOR

       Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C)2003-2012 Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

       This  program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will
       be  useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see the
       file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA

								   16 March 2012						   daisy-player(1)