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kres
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 Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject: How to use Helix Player with Mozilla/Firebird |
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This tip was generated with information from the helixcommunity.org site and the dslreports.com site. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9970530~mode=flat - posted by Gentoo's own stateq2!
1) Make sure that the Helix Player is installed first off. When you install it, if asked, indicate that you would like the installer to register the player, and integrate with Mozilla. I also suggest using /opt/helix-player as a path.
2) Open Mozilla or Firefox and go to the Mozilla/Firefox configuration page by typing the following into the browser address bar:
3) Right-click anywhere in the content frame, and choose new---> string
4) A Dialog box will pop up. The first entry is the preference name type the following into the box:
| Code: | | network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp |
5) The next pop-up is asking for the value to attach to this entry, in our case it would be the name of the Helix executable. Type in the path to the hxplay executable. I create a link in /usr/bin to mine, so I would type for simplicity:
... and things will work just fine.
That's about it. This tip will help you around the annoying "rtsp is not a registered protocol" error. A good site to use a test is:
http://www.cspan.org
For Nightly Helix Player Builds and source code, go here:
http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helixdnaclient
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moocha
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Or you could | Code: | | emerge mplayerplug-in |
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kres
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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**Cough! {Troll!} Cough!** 
Yup, you certainly could use the mplayer plugin....
But I've found that mplayer does a lousy job of handling streams - especially when bandwidth is an issue. (throughput increases / decreases) It also get's kinda weird over rtsp and smil content.
To each their own.... In my case mplayer for static/local data (and DVD's, damn, it's come a long way in that regard), and Helix for streams.
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moocha
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| kres wrote: | | **Cough! {Troll!} Cough!** |
*grin* Wasn't meant as one, though - I just thought it could be helpful  Haven't had the latency variation issue, but then my bandwidth is pretty stable and congested on my end, too, so server-side variations don't affect me that much.
Ah well 
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stateq2
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| moocha wrote: | Or you could | Code: | | emerge mplayerplug-in |
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you know, i have the mplayer-plugin installed (which is great for all the widnows-only streams), and i was still getting the "rtsp is not a registered protocol" error....the only way that fixed it, was to manually make the entry in about:config. perhaps mplayer doesn't realize where helix puts the codecs 
In addition, I think it's best to play the media in it's default player, when possible...agree?  plus, helix player is much better/stable than the old realplayer
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parsecbyproxy
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: How to use Helix Player with Mozilla/Firebird |
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| kres wrote: |
| Code: | | network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp |
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Did it and I still get the bad transport error... I'm probably missing something obvious...
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stateq2
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:21 am Post subject: Re: How to use Helix Player with Mozilla/Firebird |
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| parsecbyproxy wrote: |
Did it and I still get the bad transport error... I'm probably missing something obvious... |
you may have to wrong version of helix player...i tried the newest one, and it didn't have the ability to play realmedia streams. the one i'm using now, which i know works w/ realmedia streams, is 0.3.0.96 (the "bin" release from 05/07/04)
http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helixdnaclient/
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| moocha wrote: | Or you could | Code: | | emerge mplayerplug-in |
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mplayer does really crappy with real files from my experience... |
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stateq2
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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another thing that's vital....installing the helixplayer browser plugin.
go to the helixplayer install directory, then go into the "mozilla" dir that's there.
symlink both "nphelix.so" and "nphelix.xpt" into your "~/.phoenix/plugins dir". that's it
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stateq2
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject: pnm protocol |
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one additional thing...there is a protocol called 'pnm'(i think it's for realaudio files), and to register helix player w/ it...instead of typing....
| Code: | | network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp |
type...
| Code: | | network.protocol-handler.app.pnm |
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