From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:43:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511212143.54820@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051121201512.GE5876@dmz.brixandersen.dk>
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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.
--
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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2005-11-21 19:29 [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-21 20:15 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-11-21 20:43 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [this message]
2005-11-21 22:00 ` Edward Catmur
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