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I think, if I read right, that FC3 is supposed to come with Helix, but I can't find it on the audio video menu. I thought it might be movie player, but that launches gmplayer. If they put it in a weird place and I just haven't seen it yet, where is it? If not, what's the command?
Indeed it does, but if I were you I would just download realplayer for linux coz helix player is just a crippled version of realplayer. Helixplayer can't play a lot of proprietary formats, but realplayer can.
Will do. Two questions tho:
1. what is best place to get real player? from real.com itself or from a place like freshrpms....altho not freshrpm, I don't think they have it.
2. Crippled though it may be, what is the command for helix? I tried helix and realplayer (don't remember what case) and it didn't launch
hxplay is helix.
I myself don't like helix or realplayer, I stick with xxms/bmp and mplayer/xine.
but of course, to each his own. I'd download realplayer, I believe helix gets support for the formats after the installation of realplayer.
I got realplayer from DAG's repository.
could do my usual way of finding random stuff.. updatedb and then slocate hxplay | less, or even slocate helix | less then guess where the binary is from there.
or maybe just reinstall it. yum remove helix and then a yum install helix
get it from the helixplayer download site. I use realplayer coz I watch a lot of streaming news from the BBC. Unfortunately xine and mplayer don't always play streaming windows media fine, using the mplayer or xine mozilla plugins.
I ended up going to real.com and, unlike with previous versions of real player, the install was VERY easy. They even provided an RPM! I installed it the usual way (rpm -ivh filename.rpm) and tried it out both on the net and on local files and it works great. So realplayer will play windows streaming media? Fishy, but I'll try it! (didn't think M$ would let anyone figure out how to do that)
well, if you'd gone to the helixplayer site you would have noticed that there are downloads for Realplayer and Helixplayer (rpms included) and their versions are newer than the ones on the real.com site.
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