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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. Yeah fuck that shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you can ram that shit right up your fucking ass cocksucker, who needs it when there's free software that can play your lame proprietary formats.

  2. Al Gore Invented Crappy Open Source Players by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're crappy by definition because they're open source not because he invented them. But he invented them For the Internet which he Invented Too.

  3. Helix player is retarded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I swear to God, the Helix "project" is the biggest piece of fucking bullshit. "Open source"?? Have you gone to their website? To even download binaries you have to go through this long registration/login process and of course you're forbidden by the long clickthrough EULA to even redistribute them. BINARIES, people. I didn't even try to navigate through the big obfuscated site to find the source code.


    As everybody knows, even if you do manage to find and get permission to develop the source (you need permission from the "Project" to submit patches) it isn't for anything useful (ie, Real codecs), just the dumb UI. Wow, what an awesome project! We should be grateful that Real lets us work for them for free to develop generic bullshit UI code without getting anything substantive in return. Thanks Real!