Hi Greg, I completely agree. I had considered trying this, but it seemed to be entirely to limited and would not meet my needs. I wondered about the interface and why the buttons were not labeled, but glad you have tried and reported the issues. I hope the developer does make these corrections. THe ftp transfer is a neat idea and I've found a couple of apps that use this method for moving data between a computer and the iPhone. Thanks again for sharing your report.
On Jan 2, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Greg Kearney wrote: > 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.
