Helix Player

[fred smith]

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?

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 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
> 
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