From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeJoS-0001mE-U1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:07:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALM5Ot4026644; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:05:24 GMT Received: from smtp804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALM10e3014555 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:01:00 GMT Received: (qmail 1541 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2005 22:01:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO anya) (edward.catmur@btinternet.com@80.192.83.27 with plain) by smtp804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2005 22:00:59 -0000 Received: from capella.catmur.co.uk ([::ffff:192.168.10.3]) by anya with esmtp; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:00:57 +0000 id 00003F91.4382439A.00004E8C Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer From: Edward Catmur To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200511212143.54820@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> References: <200511212029.15870@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051121201512.GE5876@dmz.brixandersen.dk> <200511212143.54820@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:00:56 +0000 Message-Id: <1132610456.26789.4.camel@capella.catmur.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jALM5Ouh026644 X-Archives-Salt: 8b91d048-7463-43e6-a1d7-9b74852f510d X-Archives-Hash: d6b9683785052752318ad5dc852a9575 On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 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 :| >=20 > > What replaces it? > HelixPlayer is a simple player for Ogg Theora/Ogg Vorbis files, so you = can=20 > find at least three better replacements: media-video/vlc, xine and its=20 > frontends and media-video/mplayer . > They might not be drop-in replacements, but it's not like helixplayer d= oes=20 > 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 --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list