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.

Comments

Just wanted to remind people....

[herrvinny]

...about the prevailing consensus about Real on /.

By the way, here's the /. article about the launch of the Helix player contest.

Re:Helix Player milestone 2

[DA-MAN]

Here is the direct link for the download!

http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helixdnaclient/

Here is a quick tutorial on making an rpm of it.
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/helixplayer/

And since there is no Windows version of the HelixPlayer, here is the link to the RealOne Player:

http://www.realone.com/R/RC.012004realhome_1_1_2_1 _1_2.ecomm...R/forms.real.com/real/realone/realone .html?beta_bypass=true&bbits=true&type=dlrhap_bb&& pp=home&src=012004realhome_1_1_2_1_1_2

Whither Ogg Theora?

[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

I'm beginning to think Xiph may fade and disappear at this rate. The Theora mailing lists appear to be dead, there've been no 'Ogg Traffic' updates for a couple of months, and Theora's still at "Alpha 2" half-a-year after it was originally scheduled to be "finished"....

I'd played with the alphas and liked the video and sound quality. Seemed like a really promising format, so hopefully they won't let Theora languish and will use some of the grant money to get back to work on it, but I wouldn't hold my breath...

Re:They should have more screenshots.

[rgammon_real]

The UI is written in glade, and the helix engine is wrapped in a GtkWidget-based GObject.

This makes it easy to create your own UI or even custom player

UI feedback is welcome on the users mailing list, users@player.helixcommunity.org, which you can subscribe to on https://player.helixcommunity.org.

Re:Totally Lost

[rgammon_real]

The easiest way to get the source is here.

You want the "01/21/04" table, "source" row, "HelixPlayer" column.

You should be able to build this tarball by untarring it and typing make.

It'd also be a good idea to subscribe to the dev@player.helixcommunity.org mailing list here

You can also ask questions on irc.helixcommunity.org channel #player if you have feedback, or need a hand with the build system.

Hope to see you on the mailing lists!

Re:Call me a skeptic, but Real...

[kforeman]

Guys, its really simple. Over 65% of our revenue now comes from consumer content services like RealOne SuperPass (content from CNN, ABCNEWS, Major League Baseball, etc) and Rhaposdy (streaming music service) This business model has allowed us to build great free(gratis) and open source (libre) software products, like the Helix Player. Kevin Foreman GM, Helix, RealNetworks