On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 21:24 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > Eventually realised that it's called HelixPlayer, and yes, it can be removed - > Ric, are you listening? HelixPlayer... that was intuitive. I don't guess it could have just been named helix... oh Hell naww, it's too #%^$& important to be all lower case with a simple name. I did rpm -q --whatprovides helix and nothing came up. There ought to be a law. > It does, but the embedded tab didn't allow me to do anything helpful. I still > don't know why the problem occurred. HelixPlayer was not listed to be used > at all, but it seems to grab things. Thanx, Sis. You're on to it. It seems to grab things when I don't want it to grab things. That's my beef. I am ignorant of the mechanism that does this and would remove it if it became known. File Mangler is no help at all. It has unresolvable file depends on totem-xine. > Anyway, removing HelixPlayer hasn't > helped the original problem. From the url that Scott gave I can play it with > 'Music Player' whatever that may be, but I still can't play it from the url > that Ric originally gave us. You must have missed the errata... when I originally copied and pasted I only got the text, not the link. My bad. We cleared it up in the posts that followed, which you may have deleted on the fly. <smiles, but showing no teeth and avoiding direct eye contact> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================