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)