[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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List of all comments to this articleSorted by date, most recent at bottom |
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 |
Comment 5 | Mekanix | | 23-Jul-2002 07:24 GMT |
Comment 6 | Kjetil | | 23-Jul-2002 10:00 GMT |
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RealNetworks goes Opensource : Comment 7 of 27 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 23-Jul-2002 11:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Mekanix): "But as it stands, AmigaOS probably wont gain much from this. Doubt Real is interested in compiling their codecs for OS4"
If LinuxPPC get the codecs there is a chance that we can use it for OS4 or pegasos. Don't we already have an Amiga player using xanim codecs for playing indeo stuff ? |
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