Re: Helix Player

2006-05-31 Thread Bob Tracy
If necessity is the mother of invention, then MPlayer killed her as far as moving forward with getting Helex Player working on the Alpha. Didn't realize MPlayer could handle the streaming audio formats in which I'm interested. For anyone that cares (probably no one based on the amount of feedback

Re: Helix Player

2006-05-31 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
What binary codecs do you mean ? I tought these http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#codecs were only for x86. Bob, personally I do care that mplayer runs fine on my alpha :) Manu Helge Kreutzmann a écrit : Hello, On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:57:42AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: For anyone

Re: Helix Player

2006-05-31 Thread Bob Tracy
Emmanuel Kasper wrote: What binary codecs do you mean ? I tought these http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#codecs were only for x86. At the above URL you'll find two http locations for other binary codec packages where there are a number of packages for non-x86. The only codec package

Re: Helix Player

2006-05-27 Thread Bob Tracy
Recently I've been wondering about the feasibility of producing a working Helix Player port for the Alpha. Falk Hueffner suggested I should have a look at MPlayer. What I've discovered isn't promising. There are no Debian packages, and probably won't be due to both the non-free nature of several

Re: Helix Player

2006-05-19 Thread Bob Tracy
) defined (__GNUC__) section written to be used instead of the existing #elif defined (__alpha) code. I wrote a patch that does just that (see bug #337867). However, I never really tested it and I think there were some other problems... Is there anything that Helix Player can play that mplayer

Helix Player

2006-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Anyone working on this? Version 1.0.4 might be doable if the dependencies on the Tru64 native compiler (ccc) could be eliminated. Specifically, it looks like common/include/atomicbase.h needs to have a #elif defined (__alpha) defined (__GNUC__) section written to be used instead of the existing

Re: Helix Player

2006-05-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
written to be used instead of the existing #elif defined (__alpha) code. I wrote a patch that does just that (see bug #337867). However, I never really tested it and I think there were some other problems... Is there anything that Helix Player can play that mplayer cannot? I thought not, which