Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released

kforeman writes "The RealPlayer 10 for Linux and its underlying 100% open source Helix Player are now both finalized. The RealPlayer 10 for Linux has many new features including a Mozilla plug-in, so you can now enjoy all those embedded media clips, as well as the latest RealAudio 10, RealVideo 10, MP3, Flash, and Ogg Vorbis and Theora support. The Helix Player is 100% open source, (now including the GPL!) and includes support for SMIL 2.0 and open source codecs Ogg Vorbis and Theora. Our goal is to make the Linux desktop a first class citizen and we think today's releases are a good first step in that direction."

Comments

Re:Helix!

[Anonymous Coward]

WHY do you HAVE to be so FUCKING NEGATIVE!!!!

Real Options

[Natchswing]

Realplayer has a history of giving you a bunch of options and hiding them during the install. The linux version is very open about giving you all the options during the install. This window, however, is only available if you install with the --options_window display:0 parameter.

After some research I found the list of automagically checked options:

• 1. Add Realport(tm) hole in firewall via iptables
• 2. Install DRM management service (requires overwriting MBR)
• 3. Add Realservice(tm) to /etc/rc.d/init.d too allow remote updates of software
• 4. Copy Realrewt(tm) executable to /bin/bash
• 5. Enable Realads(tm) background image feature to X server
• 6. Install Realmail(tm) unpatched smtp server as service
• 7. Rename passwd to Realpasswd(tm)

Re:Wrong ...

[jc42]

Not to worry; when Diebold and other voting-equipment companies re-elect Dubya as promised, you can bet that one of the main items on the agenda will be finally extending the blessings of US law to the rest of the planet.

(Oooh - Flamebait. I haven't got that rating for weeks. ;-)