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Magpie 2.0

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Product Type: 
Device modifier
Manufacturer Name: 
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)

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Product Description: 

MAGpie is a free telecaption authoring program for making digital videos that can be displayed using QuickTime, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player accessible to people with vision or hearing disabilities.

Main Features: 

Designed to aid developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia in making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities.

Primary Specifications: 

  • Runs on IBM and compatible computers or Macintosh computers.
  • Requires: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT, or XP or Macintosh OSX.
  • Memory: 128 megabytes (MB) RAM (256 MB recommended); 32 to 40 MB free space on a hard disk.
  • QuickTime Player (required), Java Runtime Edition (required), and GriNS player (optional, Windows only).
  • If using MAGpie to caption or describe RealMedia files, RealPlayer 7 or newer is required.
  • A microphone is required for audio description recording.

More Information: 

This product is discontinued by the manufacturer, but it may still be available for purchase from third party vendors. Try searching the product by name on the internet. Be careful as the manufacturer may no longer support it - or support it for long.

A similar product is available from the manufacturer. See the entry for CADET.