Helix Player

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:26, fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:29:05PM -0500, Kreg Steppe wrote:
> > Clifford Snow wrote:
> > >On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:00, Stephen Walton wrote:
> > ><snip>
> 
> A slight change of direction here....
> 
> I went to the Helix site to download it, it told me I had to register
> first, so I did. But having done that it insists that I still cannot
> download because I don't have enough privileges. So I gave up on it,
> but would still like to get it if I can avoid the runaround. How did
> you all get past their stupid system?
I just followed their registration.  I've been a registered user for
some time.  It is possible that they have done something different since
I registered.
> 
> Fred
> > >
> > >>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 have a message from helixcommunity that this bug 1114 will be fixed in
1/13 nightly build.  
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Clifford Snow
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