Helix Player

[Kreg Steppe]

Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:00, Stephen Walton wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>The situtation right now:  I've installed the Helix Player, both by hand
>>(unpack archive into /usr/local and make a symbolic link
>>/usr/local/bin/hxplay -> /usr/local/HelixPlayer/hxplay) and using Thomas
>>Chung's instructions at fedoranews.org.  Either way I get an error box
>> every time I try to play a Real
>>stream.  This is on two quite different pieces of hardware.
> 
> I get the same error message.  Best as I can figure, hxplay is
> complaining that it can not find the web address located inside of the
> file downloaded from NPR.  If you display the downloaded .smil file and
> run hxplay with the url found in the .smil file, hxplay works.  
> 
>>Has anyone been able to get HelixPlayer working on FC1?
> 
> Hxplay does work if you open an existing file on your system.  
> 
> I've submitted bug 1114 to the helix community.  See
> http://helix-dna.helixcommunity.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1114
> 
> 

I got it installed without any problem, also using Thomas's tutorial.
I only have that same error ("Unexpected error code (0x800400C9)") if I 
try to open a ram file by clicking on it... if I open helix and open the 
file through the program (file->open) it works as advertised.

Kreg