From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta11.charter.net (mta11.charter.net [216.33.127.80]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F74210A39 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:59:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aarprv06.charter.net ([10.20.200.76]) by mta11.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080817155930.QJDP21239.mta11.charter.net@aarprv06.charter.net> for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:59:30 -0400 Received: from maranatha.local ([97.87.51.3]) by aarprv06.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080817155930.DWNZ570.aarprv06.charter.net@maranatha.local> for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:59:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:59:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Cheryl Homiak Sender: chomiak@maranatha To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: mlb, nfl and iceweasel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Chzlrs: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:59:31 -0000 As for field pass, it is better. Also, they play some kind of irritating music during commercials. Yes, I can do field pass on the Mac and windows and sirius but I keep watching for it to work on linux. I finally dug out a realplayer for ppc and it appeared to install and shows up in the Applications menu. But when I tried game links it showed the title of the game and said "inaccessible" and when I tried a .m3u and a .ram file they didn't play though I didn't get o errors--well, it said something about "grayed out" on the ram file. However, when I added some gstreamer plugins, totem picked up the m3u and ram file. But still no go with nfl. I do have to say that I am impressed with Orca's progress although I haven't been very impressed with the progress of gui screenreaders for linux up till now. I can finally really navigate iceweasel and get some results: listening to a church service and radio stations and even accessing my online banking. There is a project for a silverlight equivalent which might help with mlb, but you have to compile the media codecs (Moonlight) and I can' find some of what's listed in debian. I also find I'm a bit handicapped because I'm using ppc; for instance, there's no adobe flash player for linux ppc and live365 keeps sending me to the linux player installation page for the non-ppc version. But the only Intel machine I have that could be commandeered for linux is being used for something else right now. However, I do overall see improvement. Is there a lot of difference between iceweasel and firefox? I've made attempts to install firefox but failed so right now I'm just using iceweasel. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."