HelixPlayer and snd-atiixp

[Michel Salim]

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

[Matthias Saou]

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

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[Michel Salim]

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
>  
>  -- 
>  Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
>  Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
>  Load : 0.18 0.41 0.33
>

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:27 -0500, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>  If only to help bugfix RealPlayer, which I need to play BBC Radio
>  streams? (whatever happened to their Ogg Vorbis trials..) 
The RealPlayer libraries also work in Xine.

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dwmw2

[Rodd Clarkson]

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
-- 
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
 It's much better on my side"

[Patrick W. Barnes]

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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