realplayer troubles - deleted or not?

i used to watch the news on tagesschau.de before i went on summer vacation. now it doesn't work longer, for a reason not specified; the message is "general error" and nothing more. so i wanted to delete realplayer and get a new one. then i found out that i have two times realplayer10 in my start up list while the only realplayer found to deinstall was realplayer 8.x. see screenshot: http://home.arcor.de/noroli/real.png
searching my entire harddisc gives no results on "real" either. so i wonder what to do next: ignore that and get myself a new application or ...?

best regards
ungua

p.s.: the only reason i find to that problem is that i installed a couple of files that should make it possible to watch all kind of movie-files with kaffeine/xine. which is not really working either...

I am having a problem with realplayer so I think you are too.
My suggestion is install helix, it will replace realplayer.

thanks for posting! will it replace only realplayer or also xine?

regards
ungua

Originally posted by ungua thanks for posting! will it replace only realplayer or also xine? regards ungua

It replace real only.
Because real was developed from Helix code, so if you install one of these, they will replace each other

then i will do so right away. haven't had the time to install it before...

regards
ungua

i installed helix player now. it didn't start when i wanted to watch this, so i saved the .ram-file. opening with helix afterwards then failed - it recommended real player. the link goes to a site with no working certificate, afterwards to real.com/linux. the file downloaded is a .bin which by unknown reason is not executable on my machine. this really sucks... why can't it be easy once? i will download another .rpm to install realplayer some day later.

regards
ungua