Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

[Edward Catmur <ed@catmur.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of
> > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us
> > someone having to ask:
> Sorry, too used to know the media-video category by heart :|
> 
> > What replaces it?
> HelixPlayer is a simple player for Ogg Theora/Ogg Vorbis files, so you can 
> find at least three better replacements: media-video/vlc, xine and its 
> frontends and media-video/mplayer .
> They might not be drop-in replacements, but it's not like helixplayer does 
> anything more for now.

helixplayer handles some of the RealMedia transports and codecs better
than any of the above; but for that you can use realplayer-10.0.6, which
is the same codebase as helixplayer and has extra non-Free codecs - it's
non-Free, but works on amd64 and x86, and anyone wanting to hack on the
realplayer/helixplayer codebase will be using helixplayer pre2 cvs
anyway.

Ed Catmur

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