It would seem that the stable builds of Helix and RealPlayer both have problems with the ALSA snd-atiixp driver - the sound would play for a second, stutter and skip, play again, stutter again and so on.
The good news is that the daily builds fix this - but for some reason when I play back a Theora video there the colors become messed up.
So the question is: is Fedora Core 5 planned to ship with Helix 1.0 or the next stable version? If the former, could whatever changes have been done in the development version to fix the sound problem be backported?
Thanks,
- Michel
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote :
It would seem that the stable builds of Helix and RealPlayer both have problems with the ALSA snd-atiixp driver - the sound would play for a second, stutter and skip, play again, stutter again and so on.
The good news is that the daily builds fix this - but for some reason when I play back a Theora video there the colors become messed up.
So the question is: is Fedora Core 5 planned to ship with Helix 1.0 or the next stable version? If the former, could whatever changes have been done in the development version to fix the sound problem be backported?
ooooooooooooooh... someone out there actually uses HelixPlayer? :-D
Matthias
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:08 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote :
It would seem that the stable builds of Helix and RealPlayer both have problems with the ALSA snd-atiixp driver - the sound would play for a second, stutter and skip, play again, stutter again and so on.
The good news is that the daily builds fix this - but for some reason when I play back a Theora video there the colors become messed up.
So the question is: is Fedora Core 5 planned to ship with Helix 1.0 or the next stable version? If the former, could whatever changes have been done in the development version to fix the sound problem be backported?
ooooooooooooooh... someone out there actually uses HelixPlayer? :-D
If only to help bugfix RealPlayer, which I need to play BBC Radio streams? (whatever happened to their Ogg Vorbis trials..)
Both Rawhide's 1.0.5.757 (experimental) and the latest stable build from HelixCommunity (1.0.6.1112) have the stuttering problem. The latest current build (1.1.0.1188) plays sound alright. All three have color problems playing a Theora video, which funnily the Helix Player from FC4 plays fine.
Matthias
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On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:08 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote :
It would seem that the stable builds of Helix and RealPlayer both have problems with the ALSA snd-atiixp driver - the sound would play for a second, stutter and skip, play again, stutter again and so on.
The good news is that the daily builds fix this - but for some reason when I play back a Theora video there the colors become messed up.
So the question is: is Fedora Core 5 planned to ship with Helix 1.0 or the next stable version? If the former, could whatever changes have been done in the development version to fix the sound problem be backported?
ooooooooooooooh... someone out there actually uses HelixPlayer? :-D
Yeah, I'm with you.
I was actually hoping that Fedora might dump Helix as part of Core. Is there anything that Helix does that Totem can't?
The only thing I can think of is Helix seems to register itself for protocols it can't handle (Real) and then offers up advertising for RealPlayer when it fails to play the format.
Am I missing something, or could we move this to Extras.
Rodd
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:08 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote :
It would seem that the stable builds of Helix and RealPlayer both have problems with the ALSA snd-atiixp driver - the sound would play for a second, stutter and skip, play again, stutter again and so on.
The good news is that the daily builds fix this - but for some reason when I play back a Theora video there the colors become messed up.
So the question is: is Fedora Core 5 planned to ship with Helix 1.0 or the next stable version? If the former, could whatever changes have been done in the development version to fix the sound problem be backported?
ooooooooooooooh... someone out there actually uses HelixPlayer? :-D
Yeah, I'm with you.
I was actually hoping that Fedora might dump Helix as part of Core. Is there anything that Helix does that Totem can't?
The only thing I can think of is Helix seems to register itself for protocols it can't handle (Real) and then offers up advertising for RealPlayer when it fails to play the format.
Am I missing something, or could we move this to Extras.
Rodd
This has been discussed to death. I think you'll find a lot of agreement, but it isn't moving anywhere. :-(
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