Real's opensource HelixPlayer available for windows only, available, windows, because

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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

Wasn't that been avalible 4 a long time?

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

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

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

do you still have this working compile?

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 gt;lt; ) 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  

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

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

Instructions
Install GTK++ 2.0. Download it here
Install Helix Player binnary for Windows.
Download it here
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
If you want Helix Player to support more formats, sust copy some realplayer plugins into helix player's plugins directory.


Originally Posted by Winamp_HaterI know the thread is very old, but I finally made Helix Player run.
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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)

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


Originally Posted by Winamp_HaterI'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... )

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

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)

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.