RealPlayer10 issues - addendum

[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.

By the way, I just noticed that the filename you used hxplay.bin.  You 
tried to invoke that?  I believe that is a file compressed into binary 
format.  You have to uncompress that file, once you do that .bin suffix 
will be removed and the file you execute (called by programmers the 
executable will be in /usr/bin as something like helixplayer.  As as 
quick check you can look at all the other programs in /usr/bin -- none 
of them end in .bin either.

tar can remove that .bin suffix for you also.  It can do a lot of 
things.  Do man tar or info tar as in:

$man tar

to learn more.  Or go to the project; I always reference stuff there.
Religiously!

Really.

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 anykind 
> of Real file (e.g. ".rm").  Then it hangs and has to be force-quit.
>
> Thanks,
> -PRH
>
> On Saturday 23 September 2006 12:08, ДиаконНиколай 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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