Free digital talking books software for linux

Digital Camera Protocol is another command-line utility for DC21x cameras, this one looks and works just like "ftp" command. Not written by me, but uses some of my low-level Kodak code from digicam.

GNUdap is a project to build a userspace driver to interface Linux with proprietary-protocol USB MP3 players and mass storage devices. Currently GNUdap supports the CHIC MP10, CHIC MP30, CHIC Symphony from "Perstel,Inc." and the NGS Jogger from the NGS Technology.
GNUdap is also an experiment to test the advantages of a strongly-typed programming language and of the functional programming paradigm in hardware developing. In fact GNUdap is developed using the Objective Caml programming language.
To access the devices, we use camlusb, an ocaml binding to libusb, wich is an library which works in userspace to access usb devices.
A shell, which supports the main features of the player, is provided. Besides being done for linux, unlike the original program provided with the MP10, this software is interesting because it has additional features (like being able to transfer mp3s directly to the pc, and to change the playable status of a file on the DAP), not present in the official one. A graphical frontend and a filesystem interface are planned.
To find more informations about the protocol, the driver and the shell visit the Documentation Page
Enhancements:
- chic.sh: Corrected the DIR variable
- added documentation

XML Digital Signature Tool is a Firefox extension that can process Digital Signature in XML documents (as per W3C standard for XML signature: http://www.w3.org/Signature/).

The XML digital signature tool is built on top of Apache XML security C library (version 1.3), called XSEC (http://xml.apache.org/security/c/index.html). We made no changes to XSEC source code. We just compiled the source with NSS option to provide cryptographic functionality using browsers CERT DB. The recompiled XSEC library is packaged with the XPI file for this extension.

In addition, this tool provides an XPCOM based API for wrapping C++ based Apache XML security library. Our XPCOM IDL based API allows any Firefox based extension to access XSEC library using JavaScript and C++. This tool also provides XUL based GUI for specifying various parameters for signing XML files and verifying signed XML files.

The Apache XSEC c-library uses the Apache XML projects (http://xml.apache.org/) Xerces-C XML Parser and Xalan-C XSLT processor. The latter is used for processing XPath and XSLT transforms. This tool does not include the DLL or shared library for Xercrs-C or Xalan-C. You have to download and install Apache XERCES for C (v1.3.0) and XALAN tools for C (v.1.10) before you can run this extension. The path for shared libraries or DLL of XERCES and XALAN must be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for Unix) or PATH (for windows).

In addition, the tool provides following features:

- ability to generate Self-Issued SAML Token (both v1.1 and v2.0) using the RSA/DSA keys in the certificate DB. (http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/) The SAML Token generation is implemented using a XPCOM based componenet.
- XPCOM based API for UUID generation. The XPCOM implementation resues the UUID generation source code in the RFC4122 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt). We have adpated the source code for Mozilla NSS based digest and added string based UUID API.

Note: This tool only works on Windows and Linux OSes.

Digital Disco System is a client/server-based audio player for disco purposes as well as at-home usage. It has an console frontend (usable in shell scripts) and an X-fontend in the style of XMMS.

X-Digital Disco System (X-DDS) is the graphical frontend for the Digital Disco System. X-Digital Disco System is based on the XMMS Multimedia Player.

About Digital Disco System:

Digital Disco System is a client/server-based audio player for disco purposes as well as at-home usage.

It has an console frontend (usable in shell scripts) and an X-fontend in the style of XMMS.

RJBs Digital Media Center is a music player.
RJBs Digital Music Center is designed to run on dedicated hardware. Because of this. It running as root. Very dangerous. Other than grabbing the X display and calling stop and halt scripts. It should be able to run as a non-root user. I will look into this on future releases.
Install steps:
(1) Install Nvidia Graphics Card.
(2) Plug X10 or IRMan control module into Com1.
(3) Connect Computer to Television
(4) Install RedHat 9.0
(5) During RedHat install select "Server Install"
(5) During package selection
(a) Select The Following Packages
X Window System
Sound and Video
Windows File Server
Development Tools
X Software Development
(b) De-Select The Following Packages
Printing Support
Text Based internet
Server Configuration Tools
Web Server
Administration Tools
(6) Identify or Create a directory for your Media files.
mkdir /usr/local/Media
Would be a good choice. The install script will ask and expect this path to exist. It will create a symbolic link to it. Also create symbolic link inside to for Cdrom to /mnt/cdrom
(7) As root UnZip/Tar the DMC release in /usr/local
cd /usr/local
tar zxvf dmc-releaseV2.0.tgz.tgz
(8) If your System is a HP DEC then you need to copy from the original HP disk the binary decvfdcmd.
cp /opt/odin/dec/bin/decvfdcmd /tmp
This binary controls the front LCD display.
The install script will ask for this path.
(9) As root run the DMC Install Script.
cd /usr/local/dmc/bin
./Install.sh
(10) Answer questions and follow instructions
(11) Good Luck!
Main features:
- One that would connect to a TV.
- Be controlled by a remote (X10 or IRman).
- Play Video Files (.mpg .avi).
- Support Monkeys Audio along with mp3 and wavs.
- Display CD Cover Art
- Mounts music from a network server.
- UNIX based.
- XFree86 based.
- 100% C-Code (Very Fast).

Fedora Digital Object Repository is an open source software which gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects.
Digital objects can encapsulate locally-managed content or make reference to remote content. Dynamic views are possible by associating web services with objects. Digital objects exist within a repository architecture that supports a variety of management functions. All functions of Fedora, both at the object and repository level, are exposed as web services. These functions can be protected with fine-grained access control policies.
This unique combination of features makes Fedora an attractive solution in a variety of domains. Some examples of applications that are built upon Fedora include library collections management, multimedia authoring systems, archival repositories, institutional repositories, and digital libraries for education.
Enhancements:
- This is a significant release of Fedora that includes a complete repackaging as a proper Web application.
- A new installer application makes it easy to setup and run.
- It now uses Servlet Filters for authentication.
- The Fedora repository can also be configured to calculate and store checksums for content.
- The RDF-based Resource Index has been tuned for better performance.
- A new high-performing RDBMS-backed triplestore has been developed that can now be plugged into the RI.