Introduction

Welcome to the Helix Player! Our mission is to develop the next stage in evolution of media players for Linux, Solaris and Unix. We've got a lot of work to do, so if you're interested in being a part of it join this project!

Release Notes

Release notes are available here

FAQ

FAQ forum - Ask your questions here. Check to see if your questions are already answered. Help with answers that you know.

Reporting Issues

Issues can be reported here

Downloading nightly builds

Nightly builds of the Helix Player are available for testing.  There's a good chance that no one other than yourself has ever tried executing the exact binary you are downloading, and thus, we can't guarantee what these builds will or won't do.  They may crash, catch fire, delete every file on your machine and all machines in a five mile radius, or simply do nothing.  Therefore, use at your own risk!

Nevertheless, these builds may have features and bugfixes not yet present in our current milestone release.  We really appreciate any effort made to work with these releases, as it helps our testing effort out greatly.

Steps to use:

  1. Visit the nightly build page
  2. Scroll down and locate the latest date listed (dates listed in reverse order)
  3. In the "HelixPlayer" column, find the build that is right for you.  Follow the link.
  4. Agree to the license(s), then download the build
  5. Untar the tarball, and follow the included instructions

Thanks

Thanks to the following people:
Thomas Chung, for his RPM work with HelixPlayer