Real Announces Helix Grant Winners

elaineg writes "We're happy to announce the 2003 Helix Community Grant Program winners for development of open source projects on Helix. They are to UC Santa Barbara for providing robust multicast support in Helix, the Justin Karneges and Ulrich Staudinger at the Jabber Foundation for Jabber/Helix integration, Robert Kaye at MusicBrainz for integrated metadata cleanup in the Helix DNA Client, Jesse Schell at Carnegie Mellon University for integrating the Panda3D game and simulation engine with Helix, and the Xiph.org Foundation for further R&D and support of Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora codecs, including Helix DNA platform integration. More details can be found in the press release. Also, in vaguely related news, we've released Milestone 2 of the Helix Player for Linux." Helix styles itself as "the first open multi-format platform for digital media creation, delivery and playback", and has been created by Real Networks.

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OMG!! REAL!! run!

[xot]

Its a Real thingy, we can safely ./ignore -wTf helix

Gstreamer..

[Ploum]

Well, I prefer spending my time to develop applications using gstreamer and feeding the gstreamer's bugzilla.

I've seen some mail about helix on the gstreamer and on the matroska dev list.

It's very interesting, because the only thing that helix folks can say is : "Helix is really better because we have the best codec ever made : RV9. And if you join Helix, you can build a player that play RV9 file. If you don't join Helix, your player will suxx because it will not be able to play proprietary encoded RV9 videos and RV9 is the best codec that everybody will be using."

I maybe wrong because my english is not perfect. I hope to be wrong... If not, please forget helix. it's disgusting...

Jabber

[LS]

I think the guys over at Jabber need to work more on their shitty architecture before working on Helix.