[sword-devel] Sound files - proposal

[David Haslam]

IIRC, xulsword already supports audio files, but it’s quite a while since I looked, so I may be misremembering.

Aside: The same programmer also developed word-dvd which may be of interest.

David

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On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 13:20, Peter Von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> Many modern Non-Western Bible translations go along projects of recording the texts. Right now I have been offered sound files for one set of translations we have for a majority non-Christian country.
>
> Quality sound files take about 300-1000x the memory space and subsequently also bandwidth than text only, so I do not think we should propose distributing such. Sound files are usually per chapter.
>
> But I would like to propose following
>
> 1) Introduction of a conf property which is by default negative with regard to installed sound files.
> 2) A standard place in the conf files which refers to a download link for sound files.
> 2) Based on that - sound file links are kept invisible in the text
> 3) A mechanism to install sound files from other hosts (the translation organisation e.g) and automatic change to the conf entry - at change of which sound file links become visible.
>
> This requires as per my thinking
>
> a) a small change in the filters - I think can do that - on test of a conf property sound file linkes are not passed out of the filters
> b) a small change in relevant uploaded modules - I can do that - each chapter will carry a link to a per chapter sound file.
> c) a change in frontends which allows the use of the link in the conf files to download relevant sound files and change the filtering conf property once the download is successful.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Peter
>
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