On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of > > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us > > someone having to ask: > Sorry, too used to know the media-video category by heart :| > > > What replaces it? > HelixPlayer is a simple player for Ogg Theora/Ogg Vorbis files, so you can > find at least three better replacements: media-video/vlc, xine and its > frontends and media-video/mplayer . > They might not be drop-in replacements, but it's not like helixplayer does > anything more for now.
helixplayer handles some of the RealMedia transports and codecs better than any of the above; but for that you can use realplayer-10.0.6, which is the same codebase as helixplayer and has extra non-Free codecs - it's non-Free, but works on amd64 and x86, and anyone wanting to hack on the realplayer/helixplayer codebase will be using helixplayer pre2 cvs anyway. Ed Catmur -- [email protected] mailing list
