Comments on: How to install Helix audio and video player in Hardy

By: mahipal

mahipal — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:15:14 +0000

i have a problem with ubuntu , my audios and videos songs are not play in ubuntu…thanks

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:57:48 +0000

I followed the exact steps. When I try to play some songs on raaga.com, it goes from Loading… to Contacting… to stopped

Ubuntu - Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686 GNU/Linux

Thank you
Jo

By: James Campion

James Campion — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:25:02 +0000

Dear Admin
I followed the procedure as advised by you ; it worked perfectly both on my laptop and my desktop. Being able to listen to streaming audio from BBC on my Ubuntu machines is one less reason ever to have to boot into Windows XP. Am hoping to be able to totally say goodbye to Windows for ever (one day).

Thanks for your excellent support; thanks also to Mr Mark Shuttleworth for his philanthropy.

Please keep it up.

By: Whit and O

Whit and O — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:28:40 +0000

The advice on installing the browser plugin in the terminal was invaluable. Many, many thanks!!!

By: stan marsh

stan marsh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:57:36 +0000

Guys, you rock - it works. A thousand thanks.

By: hari krishna

hari krishna — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:09:13 +0000

hai thanks for giving this infromation
i tried this and it is working.

By: abhinay

abhinay — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:49:47 +0000

Thanks, It works !

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:58:07 +0000

@abhinay

try this procedure

1) Download the latest Realplayer from the HelixCommunity.org or from Real.com. We had tested with RealPlayer11Gold.bin. Remember it is the Realplayer and not the Helix Player. The file that we had downloaded and tested was
http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin. When prompted save the file to your home folder

2) Set the executable bit of the file and then run the installer.

chmod +x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

Proceed with the installation and leave the default options as they are. If all goes well your Real Player will be installed to /opt/real/RealPlayer.

3) However there has been some directory level changes with Firefox 3 which comes with Ubuntu 8.04 and hence the Real Player plugin will not work in Firefox. You can easily fix this problem by running the following commands

cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt

sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so

sudo mv /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/.

Now check if the Real Player plugin is installed properly by typing in the following in the Firefox address bar - about:plugins. If you had followed the instructions correctly and you have Ubuntu 8.04 and have used Real Player 11 Gold you should be able to see the following in the about:plugins page

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible

File name: /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.626 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Jul 26 2007

4) Now go to raaga.com and see if the player is working.

By: Abhinay

Abhinay — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:51:12 +0000

Hi Ubuntu Geek,

I have been trying to play songs from the popular website in India http://raaga.com which is real audio format. Even, I have tried playing with realplayer mozilla plugins nphelix.so & nphelix.xpt , it was no use.
It will be really useful if you help out.

Thanks,
Abhinay

By: Brett Howard

Brett Howard — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:42:21 +0000

Long live mplayer-nogui

By: Gary Hill

Gary Hill — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:05:21 +0000

Installed fine. Won’t play mp3 or avi