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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:54:55
Message-Id: 200511212143.54820@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of
3 > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us
4 > someone having to ask:
5 Sorry, too used to know the media-video category by heart :|
6
7 > What replaces it?
8 HelixPlayer is a simple player for Ogg Theora/Ogg Vorbis files, so you can
9 find at least three better replacements: media-video/vlc, xine and its
10 frontends and media-video/mplayer .
11 They might not be drop-in replacements, but it's not like helixplayer does
12 anything more for now.
13
14 --
15 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
16 Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer Edward Catmur <ed@×××××××××.uk>