From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDFTU-0006oR-00 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:24:40 -0400 Received: from c-24-6-168-37.client.comcast.net ([24.6.168.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20040413042405014001d6mue>; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:24:06 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Keithley X-X-Sender: mkeithley@c-24-6-168-37.client.comcast.net To: Cheryl Homiak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4076E759.3040602@freedombox.cc><20040409205017.GA6438@rednote.net><40773310.7080808@freedombox.cc> <001e01c41ef8$6ca4aa30$6401a8c0@handsontech> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: FreedomBox ot? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:24:40 -0000 My machine is an 800 Meg Pentium with 512 MB of Ram and an 8 GB SCSI disk. I'm using a cable connection and this might be why it's working so "well". It works snappily enough without distortion from Dectalk and some of the audio streams work great. I think there is a problem with the distributed mplayer binary in that it won't decode some audio streams. Also, the Freedombox Media Player doesn't close when streams of voice messages are finished. Text messages go through snappy and fine though there is occasionally instability that causes Freedom box to crash--sometimes leaving X running and sometimes shutting it down. Haven't played with chat. A stream that works fine is the BBC world headlines section of the news and talk radio section.