About:
The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. The GTK+ version includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen, and supports: SMIL 2.0, Ogg Vorbis, H.263 video, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and RealPix. The Symbian Series60 version supports local and streaming playback (RTSP, RTP, RDP, HTTP) of MP3, AMR narrow band, AMR wide band, RA8, sipro, RV7, RV8, RV9, RV10, H263+, 3GPP rel5 SMIL 2.0, images, and more.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
Playlist support was added. ALSA audio device support was introduced. Support for surround sound playback was added. Many fixes and incremental improvements were made, including stabilization of existing features and fixes for many known issues and bugs.

Author:
Vikram Dendi [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.62/10.00 (16 votes)

Homepage:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/
Tar/BZ2:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/
Changelog:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/[..]7/releases/HelixPlayer/ReleaseNotes.html
RPM package:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/helix-player
CVS tree (cvsweb):
https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/player/
Mailing list archive:
https://helixcommunity.org/mail/?group_id=154

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha, 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Handheld :: Media Player, Handheld :: Mobile Phone, Handheld :: PDA, X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome, X11 Applications :: GTK
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, Quality Engineers
[License]		OSI Approved, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris, SymbianOS
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Gnome, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3, Multimedia :: Video, Multimedia :: Video :: Display

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
GTK Development	11 Gold	19-Apr-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Symbian Development	1.0	27-Mar-2004	OSI Approved

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
11 Gold	Minor feature enhancements	19-Apr-2008 10:44
1.0.9 GOLD	Major security fixes	30-Oct-2007 18:45
1.0.8 GOLD	Minor feature enhancements	17-Aug-2006 17:31
1.0.7 GOLD	Major security fixes	28-Mar-2006 17:17
1.0.4 Gold	Major security fixes	21-Apr-2005 16:30
1.0.2 Gold	Minor feature enhancements	18-Dec-2004 11:10
1.0.1 Gold	Major feature enhancements	05-Oct-2004 13:42
1.0.1 Alpha	Major feature enhancements	30-Aug-2004 08:49
1.0 Final	Major bugfixes	03-Aug-2004 13:32
1.0 beta 1	Major bugfixes	17-Jun-2004 05:11

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat Updated HelixPlayer package fixes a buffer overflow flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 1st 2007 13:50 Debian: New helix-player packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Dec 2nd 2005 01:19 Debian: New helix-player packages fix multiple vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 30th 2005 06:59 Red Hat: Updated HelixPlayer package fixes a string format issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 30th 2005 01:53

Red Hat: Updated HelixPlayer package fixes a buffer overflow issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Jun 23rd 2005 22:59 Red Hat: Updated HelixPlayer packages fix buffer overflow by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Apr 20th 2005 23:20 Red Hat: New HelixPlayer packages fix security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Mar 3rd 2005 13:27

 Comments

[»] Looks like it needs some work
by bconway - Jun 17th 2004 05:50:42

Tried downloading it multiple times...

[root@thecheat xchat]# ./realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
Extracting files for RealPlayer installation.......
xxextract.tmp: Data integrity error when decompressing.
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Broken pipe

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[»] Re: Looks like it needs some work
by bconway - Jun 17th 2004 06:00:23


> Tried downloading it multiple times...

>

> [root@thecheat xchat]#

> ./realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin

>

> Extracting files for RealPlayer

> installation.......

> xxextract.tmp: Data integrity error when

> decompressing.

> Input file = (stdin), output

> file = (stdout)

>

> It is possible that the compressed

> file(s) have become corrupted.

> You can use the -tvv option to test

> integrity of such files.

>

> You can use the `bzip2recover' program

> to attempt to recover

> data from undamaged sections of

> corrupted files.

>

> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting

> now

> Broken pipe


I've downloaded the .bin installer about 5 times, each time the md5sum comes out to e31382279a8b4d21534be9c3d687424f , which is different than the README. This happened before, perhaps it was uploaded incorrectly.

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[»] Helix Player w/RealVideo is now RealPlayer (again)
by Rob Lanphier - May 21st 2004 01:01:35

We previously included RealAudio, RealVideo, and other RealNetworks' proprietary components as part of Helix Player. This has now changed:

The Helix Player 1.0 is the completely dual licensed, both open source (RPSL) and commercial community source (RCSL), media player and thus contain no non-open source components. It plays open source formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora and SMIL 2.0.

The RealPlayer 10 for Linux builds on top of the Helix Player and will include RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, Macromedia Flash, MPEG-4(fee-based) and other non-open source components.

See the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ for more details on this.

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[»] Re: Helix Player w/RealVideo is now RealPlayer (again)
by Rob Lanphier - May 21st 2004 01:05:21


> See the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ
> for more details on this.

no, really, see the Helix Player vs. RealPlayer FAQ

/me checks link this time

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[»] I wonder what it will be named?
by Scott Nelson - Oct 22nd 2003 14:57:18

... I wonder what they will name the RealPlayer that works on Linux??? ;-)

--
snelson

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