RealNetworks Releases Helix Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 29, 2002 @06:59AM from the trying-to-avoid-media-player-steamroller dept.

teeheehee writes "According to this DigitalMass article, RealNetworks yesterday released source code for their audio and video players, with server-side and encoding software coming maybe in December. The code isn't complete, it's missing things like burning-to-cd routines; and they're getting flak from Microsoft calling it a ploy. Regardless, anytime a big company releases their source only good can come of it (for the public.)" Our story a few days ago had more information on the licensing, and gathered a couple of interesting posts from one user.

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too late by FunkyELF · 2002-10-29 07:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If a person has 40 gigz of audio or video in one format they will not lose quality to convert it over to another format.
Unless there is a plugin for winamp or xmms that will support Real Audio/Video, this attempt to get people to switch formats will have failed.This is why I beleive mp3 will never go away...LAME and OGG are both supported by xmms and winamp.
It all comes down to wether there will exist a quality ALL in one player