How do I play this link ?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 26 08:05:28 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote:
> you need to install either realplayer or helix player but I just did a
> yum search for helix and nothing turned up so I'm a bit confused myself
> - perhaps something changed and the helix engine was dropped from F10
> repositories.

HelixPlayer doesn't support the proprietary Real codecs, those were not part
of what they opened up as Free Software. In fact, HelixPlayer hardly plays
anything. :-/ Last I checked, even FLAC was not supported and that is
definitely not patent-encumbered.

        Kevin Kofler




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