Re: [sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2011-03-05 Thread Dcoschroeder
I'm really interested in whether headway was ever made on this project (the project to convert SWORD or OSIS to DVD video and menus). I've always thought that it would not be too difficult to do, but I don't have the skills to do it. I've even considered manually going through and making the whol

Re: [sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2011-03-04 Thread David Haslam
The project is very much alive. I even had a face to face meeting with the programmer last week. For languages in which the culture is mainly oral and in countries with (as yet) a low literacy rate, this could be a useful method for sharing God's Word in small groups. Only one group member need be

Re: [sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2009-09-03 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > David Haslam wrote: > >>> Our friend John Austin has developed software to make a Bible DVD from >>> OSIS source text. > >> I have been sent an early demo sample (containing only the text of 2 >> John, n a Cyrillic scripted language) which c

Re: [sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2009-09-03 Thread Jonathan Marsden
David Haslam wrote: Our friend John Austin has developed software to make a Bible DVD from OSIS source text. I have been sent an early demo sample (containing only the text of 2 John, n a Cyrillic scripted language) which can be viewed using Windows Media Player (also worked on Power DVD and

Re: [sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2009-09-03 Thread David Haslam
I have been sent an early demo sample (containing only the text of 2 John, in a Cyrillic scripted language) which can be viewed using Windows Media Player (also worked on Power DVD and Windows Media Center). Not authorised to distribute the demo yet. It looks very promising! -- David David Ha

[sword-devel] Making Bible DVDs from OSIS source text

2009-09-03 Thread David Haslam
This news should be of interest to CrossWire people. I have permission to share it. Our friend John Austin has developed software to make a Bible DVD from OSIS source text. The DVD Bible creator is an Open Source program that installs as a Firefox extension in Linux. >From an OSIS file and som