This is been out for a while and appears very usable. No it's not GPL but then again neither are the nvidia drivers. This would be a great addition to the tree. I've seen comments/requests for this in the forums dating back almost a year. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
wanna make an ebuild then?
Sure. I'll get to work on it.
So, it just won the best open-source project award at LWE and milestone 2 is out as of Jan. 15, which supposedly is the equivalent of realplayer 8.
"January 6, 2004 - RealPlayer 10, directly powered by the Helix DNA Client, has been released! Support for RealAudio 10 and RealVideo10, debuting in RealPlayer 10, are available to Helix Community members through the Distribution Project (for Win32, Linux (x86), and Mac OS X (mach-o))" Again, I second/third/fourth/fifth a request for an ebuild, other requests here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122325&highlight=ebuild Here's someone's test binary Helix build here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=100116&highlight=ebuild Thanks :)
This program isn't released under a GPL License, but with RPSL which has been approved by OSI. It would be good to have it in portage since reaplayer and realone is no longer supported on linux.
Downloading/License Agreement: The helix download page requires you to click through the license agreement in order to download the source code: http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helixdnaclient/ So will this work like the Sun Java ebuilds? i.e. the user must go download the files manually before the ebuild will work? Target: The "DR5 all_clients" target looks like the best bet for an ebuild, correct?
Well, the newest nightlies seem to be nothing else than buggy on my gentoo. Won't even play radio streams. MS2.1 works okay but lags for most users necessary features and therefore it would be nice to wait for the M3 release which should be released april 04 hence soon.
Created attachment 29931 [details] First attempt: helixplayer-0.3.0.71.ebuild Well, the ebuild works for me. Unfortunately, the codec support stinks. Maybe there is some place to download codec for this sucker. Anyways, it seems pretty stable though. If you want a good test page, try this: http://r4bid.net/page-gen.html
If at least one other person will verify that this works for them, then I'll push this into the tree.
Well, by far the easiest way for me to do this was using their latest binary tarball. So I have submitted to the tree media-video/helixplayer-bin-0.3.0.71.
