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100% Open Source Helix Player 'Alpha' Available

Posted by timothy on from the but-does-it-play-ogg dept.

kforeman (Kevin Foreman, Helix GM at RealNetworks) writes "Helix Player 1.0 and RealPlayer 10 Alpha are now available. The Helix Player is 100% open source, and includes support for Ogg Vorbis and Theora, as well as SMIL 2.0 so that you can combine Theora videos with JPEG, GIF, or PNG images and RealText. The RealPlayer 10 alpha is a superset of the Helix Player alpha, and adds support for RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, and Flash. See the release notes to find out about the rest of the enhancements and give the players a whirl. We love your feedback and comments as always, so use any avenue you are comfortable with (forums, email, bugzilla) and let us know what you think! The team has tried hard to get all the bad bugs out, but remember that it's alpha and constantly improving with your feedback and help. Enjoy the player!"

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  1. warning, by Quai · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both bz2 files extract to the working dir..

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  2. Re:What's the point? by pe1rxq · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't have to miss out on real content... mplayer plays it just fine. Infact it plays it infinitly better than real's own open source player...

    Jeroen

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  3. Great! by TheSurfer · · Score: 5, Informative
    My overall first experience feels good. All the video and audio examples are working perfect now. But I still have some problems:
    • Xlib: unexpected async reply errors. I had this problem since the early hxplayer versions, and it's still here.
    • Flash is not working in RP10alpha, I get a "general error" dialog. Too bad, because I'm searching for an alternative to the Macromedia Flash player/plugin (that thing is darn slow).
    • The tarballs layout is plain crazy. Please archive your files inside a directory. It really suck to extract a tarball and find the files all over your home dir.
    But looking at the whole thing, I can only say one thing: keep up the good work :) The player interface is really nice, and I'm sure the remaining bugs will be fixed soon.
  4. Re:Record from realmedia stream? by motte_fra · · Score: 5, Informative

    if you use mplayer with the -dumpstream option on an rtsp:// url, the dumped file is then readable with realplayer (and probably others, but I haven't tried)