Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Mike Hore <mike_h...@aapt.net.au> wrote: > Mike Hore wrote: >> >> Now my next question is another newbie question -- I want to try to run >> the Helix audio player, so I've downloaded the latest PPC build >> >> hxplay-11.1.1.1404-linux-powerpc64 >> >> The problem is, I don't really know what to do next. I've uncompressed it >> into a directory "helix" in my home directory, and there's a whole lot of >> stuff there including a Bin directory with an executable file called "setup" >> that I guess I'm supposed to run, but I can't run it from there, and don't >> know either where to put it or how to change my paths or whatever it is so I >> can run it from the command line. Sorry for asking such basic questions... > > OK, I got it figured out. I checked my $PATH variable and found I needed to > either move the helix stuff into e.g. /usr/bin, or else > on the command line just type the complete path to the setup prog. This > worked, and I got Helix installed. > > Now, never satisfied, I want to get streaming audio from sites that only > provide RealPlayer or WMP formats! These are proprietary, and so not > supported by Helix. Helix kindly tells me I need to download RealPlayer 11, > but of course when I look there I find that while Linux packages are > available in RPM or DEB formats, it's x86 only (as usual). >
You can use mplayer and mozilla-mplayer (debian packages). You need realmedia codecs. Two options for installing the codecs: - run /usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh install - install Linux PPC 20071007 codecs in your /usr/lib/codecs from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html You'll need installing the package libstdc++.so.5. Regards, Bin > Any suggestions? (Apart from switching to Intel, which I won't ever ever > do) > > Cheers, Mike. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Hore mike_h...@aapt.net.au > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org