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