Hi,

as I announced I run a test of the HelixPlayer and the RealPlayer. Here is the 
protocol. Since it is the first time I did something like that, be gentle 
with your critics ;)

The protocol is divided into four parts: setup, installation, tests, errors.
The last contains major errors with their logs.

################### The Setup ###################

Hardware (lspci):
- Graphics:
Mobility Radeon 9600 M10
- Audio:
Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller 
(rev 03)

Software:
- Distribution:
Fedora Core 6, up2date on 2007-01-23
rpm-based
- Language:
de_DE.UTF-8
- Kernel:
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
- GUI-Environment:
X Window System Version 7.1.1, KDE 3.5.5
X.Org-Driver "radeon" for the ATI card
- Audio:
alsa-lib-1.0.12, alsa-oss-1.0.12

Builds:
- HelixPlayer:
1.1.0.2763-20070123.i586.rpm
- RealPlayer:
10.1.0.2762-20070123.i586.rpm

################### The Installation ###################

Installation protocol:
[root at perricum tmp]# rpm -Uvh HelixPlayer-1.1.0.2763-20070123.i586.rpm
Vorbereiten...              ########################################### [100%]
   1:HelixPlayer            ########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94826: line 7: /usr/local/HelixPlayer/postinst/confscript.sh: 
Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
[root at perricum tmp]# rpm -Uvh RealPlayer-10.1.0.2762-20070123.i586.rpm
Vorbereiten...              ########################################### [100%]
   1:RealPlayer             ########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88665: line 7: /usr/local/RealPlayer/postinst/confscript.sh: 
Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

"Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" means "File or directory not found".
Previous versions have been uninstalled previously, the file ~/.replayerrc and 
~/.helixplayer have also been deleted.

################### The Tests ###################

RealPlayer:
- start: worked, although the release information were outdated (German 
translation)
- configuration: ALSA is default playback
- ogg music file: worked fine
- mp3 music file (with German umlaut 'ö' in file name): worked fine
- ogg video file: colours are wrong: black turned to green, etc.; when I 
deactivated the XVideo option in the configuration everything worked fine
- realplayer stream: same as above, colours are wrong: blue turns to yellow, 
etc., everything was fine after deactivating XVideo
- the playback on ALSA went fine, I was able to play stuff on Kaffeine as 
well, for example
- playlist: see errors below

HelixPlayer:
- start: worked, although the release information were outdated (German 
translation)
- configuration: ALSA is default playback
- ogg music file: worked fine
- mp3 music file: as expected, wasn't able to playback
- ogg video file: same as above, with false colours until I deactivated XVideo

################### The Errors ###################

- playlist: had problems with the German umlaut when encoded as UTF8 in the 
tags, error in konsole was:
> (realplay.bin:13492): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()

- configuration: while the interface is German the content language is set to 
English(USA), which is sub-optimal

- XVideo: at least for my system that default value was plain wrong

One thing about the GUI, which is unchanged: if you want to go to fullscreen, 
you have to hit Ctrl+F - if you want to come back, you have to use the right 
click. That must be changed certainly before the next release, because it is 
much too far away from any usability.



Hope that helps.

liquidat