[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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Comment 1 | Minuous | | 23-Jul-2002 01:09 GMT |
Comment 2 | Christophe Decanini | | 23-Jul-2002 01:24 GMT |
Comment 3 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 23-Jul-2002 04:54 GMT |
Comment 4 | A.Scott Pringle | | 23-Jul-2002 06:52 GMT |
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RealNetworks goes Opensource : Comment 5 of 27 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Mekanix on 23-Jul-2002 07:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz): > Further, if I get this right, the codecs are still
> proprietary, or at least, Real's will be.
That's how it look right now, but things can happen over the next 90 days. I guess there will be some lobbying from the OSS-community to make Real open it all.
But as it stands, AmigaOS probably wont gain much from this. Doubt Real is interested in compiling their codecs for OS4.
> It smells like a "Let's pray the community
> can fix our bugs!" effort to me,
Same was said about Netscape, and as it turns out, most of the work on Mozilla was done inhouse. What this is about is Real not wanting ending up like Netscape, that is being strangled by M$. Going the OSS-way is their only option to further the adaption of their formats. |
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