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Originally Posted by Psymon
Oh, I have 3 (and 2 and 1) -- I didn't know there was a 4 out!
Oh, for sure, the audio worked just fine -- although if I was you I would turn off the autoplay, and let people start it on their own (workplace issues or whatever). I guess my problem wasn't getting the audio to work -- indeed, I got that to work just fine in my epub2 book, and it played in iBooks no problems (although my epub didn't validate, of course) -- but that's not my problem, I just couldn't seem to get the whole, entire book to get converted from epub2 to epub3, the whole process of editing the content.opf file was utterly exasperating, never mind I get frustrated with using epubcheck in a command line (I can't understand why there's not a nice GUI version of it) and each time it would take me several tries before I'd get it right (bad memory!)... only to get a pile of errors that didn't make sense half the time.
Trying to do my book as epub3 -- all just for one little audio file -- just seems like such an ordeal. Even if I did manage to get it to validate, then if/when I want to make any future changes or additions, I'd be stuck having to do them in Calibre, and I soooooooo like Sigil soooooooo much more as an editor. And then there's the whole compatibility issue, of course -- I think it came up in this thread here earlier, but some devices (esp. older ones) can't view epub3 format, never mind that even if they can, some won't be able to listen to the audio file anyway (which, in my case, was the whole point of doing it as epub3).
So it's a LOT of exasperation and frustration, for something that only works some of the time, not all the time -- I'm even possibly limiting my audience for the whole, entire book (re those devices that can't handle epub3 at all), just for one audio file (which I can instead simply provide a web link to).
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If you have a local server you can use
my version of epubcheck written in PHP. (for download see attached file)
It is, however, not working since my hosting company does not allow to run java commands on a shared server, it will work on a VPS or locally on your computer.
There is also a GUI for epubcheck called
pagina epubchecker, i'm surprised you haven't heard of that before... using the command-line is a bitch and that's what led me to create my own epubcheck gui tool which uses all of the epubcheck features unlike no other checker available.
As for the 3D, this is what i'm trying to accomplish:
http://odedta.com/projects/3d/. This is just a sample, basically, I am trying to do
this in an ePub3 by embedding collada files or any other 3d file format.
Going from ePub2 to ePub3 is extremely simple! use the file I attached to see how an ePub3 opf should look like and don't get frustrated... like everything in life, it's difficult when you don't know how things work.
