karl_lillevold
14th November 2002, 07:15
Originally posted by norxh
btw, i downloaded the binary helix client from helixcommunity. i click fullscreen, watched in fullscreen, then tried to go back to normal size. my computer froze completely. i rebooted and now when ever i bring up or leave a file save or file open dialog, my computer just freezes for like 30 seconds. i thought it may be a file system problem, so i ran chkdsk /f. but it didnt help. i'm not mad. im sure it was somewhere in those liscenses i had to agree to, that i should be aware somethin like this could happen :). but it does kinda suck. i dont have time to reformat, reinstall, etc, right now. im using win2k sp3 on ntfs. heard anything like this before?
That's really weird. I don't think there even is a ready to use player available. You have to download, via CVS, a combination source code and binary libraries, all into a well defined location, which you can then use to build a simple command line player (or very simple gui player). Did you build and run the guiplayer or 'helixplay'?
I have done this myself, and not had any serious problems, besides bugs we have to expect during such a significant code rewrite that Helix has been) These players are very simple, all files reside in one directory structure, and I can not imagine them having any effect system wide. Any app resulting in a freeze and reboot could potentially result in file systems problems, I guess, but I have never seen this happen where chkdsk would not fix it. You could try the helix IRC channel for help. There's almost always someone helpful there.
https://www.helixcommunity.org/2002/irc/
btw, i downloaded the binary helix client from helixcommunity. i click fullscreen, watched in fullscreen, then tried to go back to normal size. my computer froze completely. i rebooted and now when ever i bring up or leave a file save or file open dialog, my computer just freezes for like 30 seconds. i thought it may be a file system problem, so i ran chkdsk /f. but it didnt help. i'm not mad. im sure it was somewhere in those liscenses i had to agree to, that i should be aware somethin like this could happen :). but it does kinda suck. i dont have time to reformat, reinstall, etc, right now. im using win2k sp3 on ntfs. heard anything like this before?
That's really weird. I don't think there even is a ready to use player available. You have to download, via CVS, a combination source code and binary libraries, all into a well defined location, which you can then use to build a simple command line player (or very simple gui player). Did you build and run the guiplayer or 'helixplay'?
I have done this myself, and not had any serious problems, besides bugs we have to expect during such a significant code rewrite that Helix has been) These players are very simple, all files reside in one directory structure, and I can not imagine them having any effect system wide. Any app resulting in a freeze and reboot could potentially result in file systems problems, I guess, but I have never seen this happen where chkdsk would not fix it. You could try the helix IRC channel for help. There's almost always someone helpful there.
https://www.helixcommunity.org/2002/irc/