[Files] RealNetworks goes Opensource | ANN.lu |
Posted on 23-Jul-2002 01:26 GMT by .john | 27 comments View flat View list |
Fighting Microsoft Media Realnetworks has introduced a new multimedia-
platform called HELIX. Helix consists of a encoder, client and server
and is able to playback 55 currently known media types, including RealMedia,
Microsoft Media, Quicktime, MPEG2 and 4 and several others.
The source shall become available to the public within the next 90 days.
Realnetworks wants to achieve presence on all of the platforms in use today.
For the Amiga this could mean an incredible win ! I doubt, 68k will
be quick enough to do decent decoding of modern streaming formats,
but for PPC and Amithlon users things should be great !
It seems the opensource offer is restricted to the client (aka player)
only.
Some of the companies which signalled support for Helix are:
Cisco, Hitachi, HP, Intel, Lindows, NEC, Nokia, Opera, Oracle, PalmSource, Pinnacle, Red Hat , Sony, ST Microelectronics, Sun, Symbian, Texas Instruments and TiVO.
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Posted by Alex on 24-Jul-2002 08:31 GMT | I don't think Real deserves any praise.
The only positive outcome of making the player Open Source is it allows people to check for trojans and the likes.
On the other hand, the Open Source community will be fixing Real's bugs for free.
It should be obvious that Real's only goal is to further their own corporate agenda, as demonstrated by an encoder that remains closed source and a costly license required to provide RealA/V support on web servers.
IMHO, proprietary formats don't belong on the web, for this matter, without open standards there wouldn't be a web at all.
The MPEG formats are more than appropriate for A/V content, and any improvement or new format should be GPL/OS/Royalty free/etc or killed in the egg by webmasters.
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