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About Obi

Obi is the Urakawa Project DAISY/NISO Digital Talking production tool. It is
a simple Windows application designed to create audio books with a table of
contents.

Current version of Obi is 0.8.4.0 (2007-04-05.)


Installing Obi

To install Obi, you first need to install the Microsoft .NET runtime 2.0 and
the DirectX runtime. The .NET runtime can be installed automatically by the
Obi installer, but the DirectX runtime must be installed separately. You can
download a web installer from Microsoft at the following URL:

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

Once the DirectX runtime is installed, simply run the installer from this
archive. The installer will also create a desktop icon and a shortcut.

Note: many Windows XP installation *do* have DirectX installed; however, a
specific runtime (so-called "managed" runtime) is necessary for Obi to work
correctly. If Obi cannot start, the DirectX managed runtime may be missing
so please install it from the above URL.


Compiling Obi

Obi can be compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft Visual C#
2005 Express Edition. To compile Obi, you must first compile version 0.5 of
the Urakawa SDK (urakawa.dll) as well as the XukToZed project from the
implementation directory.


Credits

* Team leader: Julien Quint
* Developers: Marisa DeMeglio, Markus Gylling, Laust Skat Nielsen, Avneesh
    Singh, Suman Sharma
* Testers: Miki Azuma, Monthian Buntan, Mayu Hamada, Jack Jansen, Sandeep
    Kaler, George Kerscher, Lynn Leith, Deepika Sood, Prashant Ranjan Verma.
* Team management: Dipendra Manocha