[access-uk] Re: Winamp and other audio players
- From: "Amro Bilal" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:51:40 -0000
Hi Andrew,
VLC isn’t my main player but I’ve just had a quick look and came up with this:
There’s an extensive list of hotkeys that can even be reassigned. To access the
list go to menu>tools>preferences>hotkeys panel. I found the preferences dialog
quite hard to access if not at all inaccessible in some parts. However, after
some use of the virtual cursor then get sighted help I can tell you that it’s
CTRL + arrow up/down to control volume. You may need to activate the pass key
through feature in your screen reader (ins 3 in Jaws) for the VLC hotkeys to
work. Here’s below the URL of the hotkeys page of the VLC user guide for more
info
https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Hotkeys/
and this page below has a table of all the menu items of VLC along with their
shortcuts. I saw something about bookmarks in it:
https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Basic_Use/Menus/
and here’s the URL for the VLC user guide main page
https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:User_Guide/
Again, I only had a quick play with VLC so hopefully others will contribute but
I hope this will give you a starting point. From what I’ve seen I figure if one
learns some of the hotkeys from the list I mentioned it’ll be sailing from
there. The list is really very extensive!
HTH
Amro
From: Andrew Roberts
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:46 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Winamp and other audio players
Hi list,
Up until recently I have been using Winamp for all my audio streaming including
the streaming of stations from the BBC. However now they have chosen to
abandon their Windows media and AAC and AAC Plus streams I have a bit of a
problem.
Whilst there is an MP3 stream of each of the BBC stations, these are
unrestricted and hence do not carry many of the sports commentaries. The
streams that do are the HTTP based streams, HLS, HDS and DASH. The problem is
that Winamp will not play these. Whilst I realise Winamp isn’t being developed
any more, does anyone know whether there is a plug in available from anywhere
that will enable playing of these streams through Winamp?
Alternatively, one player that will play these streams is the VLC Media Player.
However I cannot work out for the life of me how to turn the player up and
down, how to set and retrieve bookmarks, or any of the functions of the player
like that. If anyone out there knows this player please could you point me in
the right direction? I can’t even find the user documentation to which the
help points! Please feel free to contact me off list if you want to reduce the
traffic for those who aren’t interested in this topic.
Many thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide,
Andrew
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