Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Matthew Campbell]

trplayer is a RealMedia player for Linux which has a text-based
interface instead of a graphical interface.  This makes it fully
accessible to blind users and others who can't use the graphical user
interface or prefer the text interface.  trplayer supports all media
formats supported by RealPlayer 7 (RealAudio, RealVIdeo, MP3, etc.).
In presentations which involve video and other visual media, trplayer
plays the audio and discards the rest.

trplayer is available for Linux and is a free download.  The trplayer
home page is at:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html

You will also need RealPlayer 7 for Linux in order to use trplayer.

Enjoy,
-- 
Matt Campbell <mattcamp@crosswinds.net>
Web site:  http://www.crosswinds.net/~mattcamp/
ICQ #:  33005941

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Matt!

Congratulations on the release of trplayer! It looks like a much needed
addition to the arsenal...

I have just implemented a "filter" to pull an http address out of a .pls
or .m3u file and pass it along to an mp3 player - I have been playing with
mpg123 since I cannot run freeamp on this system - and so I substituted
trplayer for mpg123 in my scripts. On the speakup audio page, I find that
trplayer works great on all the .ra and .ram links, and also on the
acbradio .pls  link, but on Kirk's egoplay.pls link it is silent for a
while then gives up. Does that link work for you with trplayer? mpg123
will not handle it either, but gives sporadic bursts of sound until it too
gives up. My connection is a 33.6 dialup modem.

Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
A well adjusted person is one who makes
the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Janina Sajka]

Bravo, Matt! And, thank you for making streaming audio easier to use and
enjoy. I know there will continue to be enhancements and improvements to
all of the Linux tools used by blind Linux users, but yours is one very
persuasive one. It further takes away anyone's remaining reasons to
struggle with older outmoded operating environments in the best possible
way--by providing a tool that's no more complicated to use than it has to
be to get the job done. Way to go, Matt!


-- 

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net

Re: Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[Jim Wantz]

Hi Matt, thanks to Bill Acker and Kirk I have been playing with trplayer
for a couple of weeks.  Its a great program!

    Jim


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Matthew Campbell wrote:

> trplayer is a RealMedia player for Linux which has a text-based
> interface instead of a graphical interface.  This makes it fully
> accessible to blind users and others who can't use the graphical user
> interface or prefer the text interface.  trplayer supports all media
> formats supported by RealPlayer 7 (RealAudio, RealVIdeo, MP3, etc.).
> In presentations which involve video and other visual media, trplayer
> plays the audio and discards the rest.
> 
> trplayer is available for Linux and is a free download.  The trplayer
> home page is at:
> 
> http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html
> 
> You will also need RealPlayer 7 for Linux in order to use trplayer.
> 
> Enjoy,
> -- 
> Matt Campbell <mattcamp@crosswinds.net>
> Web site:  http://www.crosswinds.net/~mattcamp/
> ICQ #:  33005941
> 
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[Angelo Sonnesso]

Hi Matthew,

When is your show on the air?

Are there any collections of back shows?
Thanks