Hi Paul:
Sorry that you are struggling through Helixplayer. I'm pretty sure that
the standard command to invoke any app like Helixplayer is to first go
to the directory where it is and then invoke it using ./ (period
followed by /) as in:
$./helixplayer
I'm assuming that is the name of the app it appears in /usr/bin. If it
is not, then use whatever the name of that app is.
On a different note you could go here:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/
Look at the Linux-ppc column and you'll see available, both Realplayer
10.0.5 Gold and Helixplayer 1.0.5 Gold available -- with Installers! The
installers will or should install the apps for you without the
difficulties you are encountering. If you still have difficulties you
can always download the source of these apps (which is compressed into
what is known as bz2 format.
There is a nice online Linux reference I like to refer to from time to
time, it's The Linux Documentation Project (http://tldp.org/). You may
like them.
Good Luck....
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Paul Higgins wrote:
Thanks for your reply. The Helix Player I downloaded was the one linked from
the YDL site: Helix Player 1.0.4.752-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-powerpc.bin.
I see from the link you sent that this is not the latest version,
unfortunately. Anyway, I followed the instructions that came with Helix
Player, and everything went OK except that the player did not show up
in my KDE menu. Then I noticed that there's a shell script "hxplay"
in /usr/bin along with "hxplay.bin". I ran that, as root:
# /usr/bin/hxplay
That walked me through a brief graphical setup, but Helix Player still does
not appear in my KDE menu. Here's what I get if I try to run the binary from
a terminal, as a regular user:
$ /usr/bin/hxplay.bin
** (hxplay.bin:25684): WARNING **: HXPlayer: Error 0x80004005: "A general
error has occurred."
** ERROR **: Could not create helix engine. You must run:
export HELIX_LIBS=<path to your helix libs>
aborting...
Aborted
I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong here, but I don't know enough Unix to
know what that is.
Also, as far as the RealPlayer goes, I do have RealPlayer10 showing up in the
K menu, and it appears to run OK--that is, until you ask it to open any kind
of Real file (e.g. ".rm"). Then it hangs and has to be force-quit.
Thanks,
-PRH
On Saturday 23 September 2006 12:08, Диакон �иколай
Станошек wrote:
Dear Paul,
Which version of Real Player are you using? According to
https://player.helixcommunity.org/downloads/ RealPlayer 10.0.5 Experimental
is the latest with the latest stable release being 10.0.0. With Helix,
which I have gotten to work on YDL just fine, the latest Experimental build
is 1.0.5 and latest stable is 1.0.0. I believe Helix is just an open source
version of RealPlayer 10.
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