Support for helix engine in amarok. Not extremely useful since it will play few formats (like ogg-vorbis and RealAudio). Most notably MP3 support is missing from this engine. But who knows, maybe out there someone has an entire ogg vorbis collection ;) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 68068 [details, diff] Patch against amarok-1.3.1-r1.ebuild to enable support for helix engine
I prefer avoiding adding this for now. As you said, it opens just a few formats (IIRC it doesn't open RealAudio as it's the free version of RealPlayer without their codecs). Also, HelixPlayer is a package with an history of security vulnerabilities, and it's not exactly the best code available. Finally, it works only on x86. I'd rather avoid this for now, as it will just make us receive more "amaroK doesn't work" bugs.
Ok, you're probably right. I'll just add that I just realized that the helix engine can actually work also with RealPlayer's codecs - this means MP3 and some other formats are supported (AAC, RA, ... ). I also suspect that it is possible to compile amarok with RealPlayer/HelixPlayer support _without_ having them installed (since the configure script does not check if they are really present on the system, and when you configure the helix engine in amarok you have to specify the location of the libraries). Just FYI :)
