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I have been happily using a combination of totem/xine and mplayer to play and stream quicktime,real format.windowzmedia 8&9 etc...for months.I wanted to give this a go because i thought helix was a good project.I am utterly convinced that this is a pile of @#%$, and please people use mplayer&totem instead,of course unless youre a newb...just a heads up,,and i can explain further if its vital to do so..
There is no problem,,its a pile of crap.I get better performance using mplayer,and have mozplugger working quite nicely also for my embedded web page player needs.Hey,,go to real.com and try to stream a real movie preview real quick.........I bet youre wondering why it wont sream???
Don't use it then. Works OK for web embedded stuff for me. Xine (I don't like MPlayer) doesn't have a browser plugin, so I'm quite enjoying Helix (that said, the only thing I'm using it for is the browser plugin). It *is* a shame that there isn't more codecs for Real/Helix though...
It is a shame indeed..oh,,,,have you used mozplugger yet?I always try to turn people on to this fine piece of software,it allows you to define what "player" you want to handle embedded video,audio,and such with mozilla,mozilla-firefox,and galeon.But hey, have you went to real.com and can stream a movie preivew?I really need to know,,be "honest"hehe....i wont attack you or anything,,,lol...
Originally posted by JARofHERB It is a shame indeed..oh,,,,have you used mozplugger yet?I always try to turn people on to this fine piece of software,it allows you to define what "player" you want to handle embedded video,audio,and such with mozilla,mozilla-firefox,and galeon.But hey, have you went to real.com and can stream a movie preivew?I really need to know,,be "honest"hehe....i wont attack you or anything,,,lol...
Yes, I installed "MozPlugger" right before the Real/Helix was announced.
It has performed perfectly and I see no reason to change it.
Originally posted by zero0w It's possible RP10 has some incompatibility issue with Athlon 64 that shows slow performance.
Otherwise, it's working great as far as I know from many people.
I've used Helix on a PIII and an normal Athlon FX. Xine can stream around three times as much video before re-buffering (despite buffering for the same amount of time) and Xine can play streams that Helix chokes on.
Helix *appears* to be throttling its connection for some reason.
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