Is Helix Player usefull?

Peter Gordon admin at ramshacklestudios.com
Fri Nov 25 06:59:14 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 22:50 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> According to SANS.ORG (Top 20 network security threats) Helix Player
> and Real Player have holes that could allow an intruder to take over
> your box. Someone else adviced you to switch to XINE, I did it
> (instead of usit Totem) and it works beautifull. I installed the
> libraries (all of them) and the front end. I can play DVD's and most
> of movie file formats. Remove Helix put Xine to work and you'll be
> happy.

If, as I do, you find the Xine UI quite terrible, you can also use Xine
as a backend for Totem by installing the totem-xine package from Livna's
repository. :-)

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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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