---
name: "helix-player"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "helix-player"
version: "1.0.8-2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/helix-player"
---

# helix-player(1)

the helix audio and video player

## NAME

helix-player - the helix audio and video player

## SYNOPSIS

**helix-player** \[*-rhecfnq*\] \[*file*\]

## DESCRIPTION

The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. It includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen, and supports:

	\* Theora (Alpha 3 encoded content), Vorbis, Ogg\
\
 	\* Basic SMIL 2.0\
\
 	\* H.263\
\
 	\* RealPix, RealText, RealEvents\
\
 	\* RAM and RPM playlist formats\
\
 	\* RTSP streaming with RTP, HTTP streaming

## OPTIONS

- **-r, --remote**

  Send a running player a command.

- **-h, --help**

  Display help message.

- **-e, --embedded FD**

  Run player in embedded mode, receive commands on descriptor FD.

- **-c, --callbacks FD**

  Use with --embedded, receive callbacks on descriptor FD.

- **-f, --fullscreen**

  Run the player in fullscreen mode on startup.

- **-n, --new**

  Open in new player (do not reuse a running player).

- **-q, --quit**

  Quit when playback is completed (used in conjunction with a URL).

- **file**

  File or URL to play. If none given, start emtpy player.

## SEE ALSO

**\<http://player.helixcommunity.org/\>**

## AUTHOR

helix-player was written by the Real Networks, Inc. and the Helix Community \<htttp://www.helixcommunity.org/\>.

This manual page was written by Holger Hartmann \<Holger\_Hartmann@gmx.de\> and Daniel Baumann \<daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).