RealPlayer10 issues

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Paul:

Sorry that you are struggling through Helixplayer. I'm pretty sure that 
the standard command to invoke any app like Helixplayer is to first go 
to the directory where it is and then invoke it using ./ (period 
followed by /) as in:
$./helixplayer

I'm assuming that is the name of the app it appears in /usr/bin. If it 
is not, then use whatever the name of that app is.

On a different note you could go here:

https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/

Look at the Linux-ppc column and you'll see available, both Realplayer 
10.0.5 Gold and Helixplayer 1.0.5 Gold available -- with Installers! The 
installers will or should install the apps for you without the 
difficulties you are encountering. If you still have difficulties you 
can always download the source of these apps (which is compressed into 
what is known as bz2 format.

There is a nice online Linux reference I like to refer to from time to 
time, it's The Linux Documentation Project (http://tldp.org/). You may 
like them.

Good Luck....
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Paul Higgins wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  The Helix Player I downloaded was the one linked from 
> the YDL site: Helix Player 1.0.4.752-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-powerpc.bin.  
> I see from the link you sent that this is not the latest version, 
> unfortunately.  Anyway, I followed the instructions that came with Helix 
> Player, and everything went OK except that the player did not show up 
> in my KDE menu.  Then I noticed that there's a shell script "hxplay" 
> in /usr/bin along with "hxplay.bin".  I ran that, as root:
>
> # /usr/bin/hxplay
>
> That walked me through a brief graphical setup, but Helix Player still does 
> not appear in my KDE menu.  Here's what I get if I try to run the binary from 
> a terminal, as a regular user:
>
> $ /usr/bin/hxplay.bin
> ** (hxplay.bin:25684): WARNING **: HXPlayer: Error 0x80004005: "A general 
> error has occurred."
>
> ** ERROR **: Could not create helix engine. You must run:
> export HELIX_LIBS=<path to your helix libs>
> aborting...
> Aborted
>
> I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong here, but I don't know enough Unix to 
> know what that is.  
>
> Also, as far as the RealPlayer goes, I do have RealPlayer10 showing up in the 
> K menu, and it appears to run OK--that is, until you ask it to open any kind 
> of Real file (e.g. ".rm").  Then it hangs and has to be force-quit.
>
> Thanks,
> -PRH
>
> On Saturday 23 September 2006 12:08, Диакон Николай Станошек wrote:
>   
>> Dear Paul,
>>
>> Which version of Real Player are you using? According to
>> https://player.helixcommunity.org/downloads/ RealPlayer 10.0.5 Experimental
>> is the latest with the latest stable release being 10.0.0. With Helix,
>> which I have gotten to work on YDL just fine, the latest Experimental build
>> is 1.0.5 and latest stable is 1.0.0. I believe Helix is just an open source
>> version of RealPlayer 10.
>>     
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