Real's opensource HelixPlayer available for windows

[bond]

on the helixcommunity site from realnetworks there is now a windows compile available of their opensource helixplayer

i couldnt get it to run tough (even after i downloaded a lot of external dlls), anyone having more luck?

grab it here (http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=hxplay-current)

[iwod]

Wasn't that been avalible 4 a long time?

Coz i am sure i try it long ago...

[bond]

as you can see on the page the first windows compile has been made on the 2nd may :)

[iwod]

yes i know... because that only list in 05..... i am surei had try it and work in year 04.....

[bond]

do you still have this working compile?

[iwod]

Originally posted by bond
do you still have this working compile?

No... It was a long long time ago. It could even be in 2003. Becoz i remember it happened not long after the annoucement of Helix.

And i also remember they don't update this player very often. ( when i check it everyday >< ) And RV10 was in development.

The player didn't work very well. I played a sample rmvb but it crash in midway and the placing of the video was slightly inaccurate.

Anyway i try the this new one and i couldn't get it to work either. Real has been rather quiet lately. ( May be they are concentrating on their Music store thing )

Honestly i lost hope in them . Since Nero AVC perform similar in low bitrate for anime and still have many improvement headroom left. It is also Mp4 standard which means one day i could get a player to play my Video on TV. The only trade off is its high Encode/Decode power.

Edit: When did you become interested in Rv? I thought you are always pro Mp4 :devil:

[Winamp_Hater]

It also didn't work in my pc. But some people say, that it works good.

[Winamp_Hater]

I know the thread is very old, but I finally made Helix Player run.

Instructions

Install GTK++ 2.0. Download it here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk%2B-2.6.8-setup-1.zip?download)
Install Helix Player binnary for Windows.
Download it here (http://www.hexemedia.com/prog-new/Multimedia/Video%20Players/Helix%20Player%20v1.0.4.exe)
Often it installs in C:\Program Files\Helix Player
Move the Helix Player files into the dir:
(often) C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin
Run HXPlay.exe
A setup wizard will appear. Finish the setup.
Launch HXPlay.exe again.
That's it


The player isn't bad, but it does not support allthe things, that RealPlayer supports.

Screenshot

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7595/hxplay8tq.th.jpg (http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7595/hxplay8tq.jpg)

If you want Helix Player to support more formats, sust copy some realplayer plugins into helix player's plugins directory.

[Leak]

I know the thread is very old, but I finally made Helix Player run.
[...]
Move the Helix Player files into the dir:
(often) C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin


Ugh. How about just adding that path to the PATH environment variable as it's meant to be done? Then every application using GTK+ will run without copying things round... :)

np: Lamb - Little Things (Fear of Fours)

[Winamp_Hater]

I've tried without moving, it didn't work. Maybe it's only in my computer. :)

[Leak]

I've tried without moving, it didn't work. Maybe it's only in my computer. :)

Well, I haven't tried HelixPlayer (and don't mean to), but GIMP works as soon as you add GTK's bin-directory to the PATH environment variable, since that's where Windows looks for DLLs...

(You do know what environment variables are, I assume... :D)

np: Lamb - Cottonwool (A Guy Called Gerald Mix) (Remixed (Disc 1))

[ak]

Wasn't teh gtk installer supposed to add that dir to the path itself? I'm pretty sure it does (the one from gimp-win at least).
Maybe windows needs some time to realize that (reboot or something) ;)

[Winamp_Hater]

I also have tried gimp - everything was ok. Then I installed again Helix player - again I had to move the files in the right dir to work.