Helix Player Project
The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. The GTK+ version includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen, and supports: SMIL 2.0, Ogg Vorbis, H.263 video, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and RealPix. The Symbian Series60 version supports local and streaming playback (RTSP, RTP, RDP, HTTP) of MP3, AMR narrow band, AMR wide band, RA8, sipro, RV7, RV8, RV9, RV10, H263+, 3GPP rel5 SMIL 2.0, images, and more.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Viewers Presentation Sound/Audio Players MP3 Video Internet Web Display Desktop Environment GNOME |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | SymbianOS POSIX Linux Solaris |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 19 Apr 2008 03:44
Release Notes: Playlist support was added. ALSA audio device support was introduced. Support for surround sound playback was added. Many fixes and incremental improvements were made, including stabilization of existing features and fixes for many known issues and bugs.
- 30 Oct 2007 10:45
Release Notes: Potential buffer overflows in the processing of several media types were eliminated.
- 17 Aug 2006 10:31
Release Notes: This release is an update for the Firefox 1.5 API changes.
- 28 Mar 2006 09:17
Release Notes: This release fixes recently discovered security vulnerabilities which offered the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a user's machine.
- 21 Apr 2005 09:30
Release Notes: This release fixes a buffer overflow where a malicious RAM file could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine, as reported in CAN-2005-0755. Furthermore, other security issues were fixed. Support was added for U-Law and A-Law encoded AU and wav files, and for chained Ogg. Opening content in an existing Helix Player instance was fixed.
Recent comments
Re: Looks like it needs some work
> Tried downloading it multiple times...
>
> [root@thecheat xchat]#
> ./realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
>
> Extracting files for RealPlayer
> installation.......
> xxextract.tmp: Data integrity error when
> decompressing.
> Input file = (stdin), output
> file = (stdout)
>
> It is possible that the compressed
> file(s) have become corrupted.
> You can use the -tvv option to test
> integrity of such files.
>
> You can use the `bzip2recover' program
> to attempt to recover
> data from undamaged sections of
> corrupted files.
>
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting
> now
> Broken pipe
I've downloaded the .bin installer about 5 times, each time the md5sum comes out to e31382279a8b4d21534be9c3d687424f , which is different than the README. This happened before, perhaps it was uploaded incorrectly.
Looks like it needs some work
Tried downloading it multiple times...
[root@thecheat xchat]# ./realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
Extracting files for RealPlayer installation.......
xxextract.tmp: Data integrity error when decompressing.
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Broken pipe
Re: Helix Player w/RealVideo is now RealPlayer (again)
> See the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ
> for more details on this.
no, really, see the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ (player.helixcommunity....)
/me checks link this time
Helix Player w/RealVideo is now RealPlayer (again)
We previously included RealAudio, RealVideo, and other RealNetworks' proprietary components as part of Helix Player. This has now changed:
The Helix Player 1.0 is the completely dual licensed, both open source (RPSL) and commercial community source (RCSL), media player and thus contain no non-open source components. It plays open source formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora (www.xiph.org) and SMIL 2.0 (www.w3.org/AudioVideo).
The RealPlayer 10 (freshmeat.net/projects...) for Linux builds on top of the Helix Player and will include RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, Macromedia Flash, MPEG-4(fee-based) and other non-open source components.
See the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ for more details on this.
I wonder what it will be named?
... I wonder what they will name the RealPlayer that works on Linux??? ;-)
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