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RealNetworks Releases Helix DNA Producer Source

Posted by timothy on from the where-will-the-spiral-take-go dept.

Rob Lanphier writes "We just released the Helix DNA Producer, a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and downloadable audio video files. It supports RealAudio, RealVideo and Ogg Vorbis, and includes many input and output filters, variable bitrate encoding support, option for two-pass encoding, audio gain control, Firewire support. Press release is here and a couple of stories are here(1) and here(2)." Here's a page that details the licenses under which the code can be obtained.

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  1. Re:Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth by thumperward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your reputation as an organisation of spyware peddlers persists because you insist on using the World's Most Sinister Installer (TM). People judge on looks, and when it looks like

    - the default video display is 60% adverts
    - it's impossible to get it to stop asking you to upgrade every eight minutes
    - you can't figure out how to give your mp3s back to Winamp
    - after uninstalling it YOU CAN'T PLAY YOUR DAMN CLIPS IN REALPLAYER 8 BECAUSE REALONE LEAVES A FUCKING REGISTRY ENTRY SPECIFICALLY DENYING YOU THE RIGHT TO PLAY VIDEO ON OLDER VERSIONS OF REALPLAYER ANY MORE
    - you find that your media player wants to also be your download manager, web browser and mother-in-law

    you are going to get a reputation for putting things on their computer that they don't want. Untrained users have learned to call this 'spyware'.

    - Chris