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Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released

Posted by michael on from the get-your-drm-on dept.

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."

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  1. Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats...buffering buffering...great!

  2. THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot uses Slashcode running on Apache with a MySQL backend. All of these packages are OPEN SOURCE, and therefore the odds of errors occurring are VIRTUALLY ZERO! On top of the impecable software, this site is maintained like a finely tuned machine by some of the most brilliant administrators and programmers the human race has to offer! I'm sick of these rumors about server errors! THEY ARE LIES!

  3. Awesome! by cytoman · · Score: 2, Funny
    The best news so far today...

    Does this mean Real will release how it hacked into iTunes/iPod?

  4. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    haha suckers I got **BUFFERING**

  5. We're so conflicted by tkrotchko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we hate Real today or do we love them?

    --
    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
    1. Re:We're so conflicted by LurkerXXX · · Score: 3, Funny
      No we can't.

      Yes we can.

  6. Re:wow I'm confused! by SoTuA · · Score: 4, Funny
    You new around here?

    Two words: IBM.

  7. Obligatory response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We hates them, precious! We hates them forever!

  8. Re:THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!! by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

    So *that*'s what happened to the Iraqi Information Minister!

  9. Re:THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!! by halivar · · Score: 5, Funny

    EVEN NOW THE ERRORS ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE AT THE GATES OF SLASHDOT!!! THE INFIDEL 503 ERRORS WILL ROAST IN THE BELLIES OF THE SLASHDOTTERS!!!

    Vote CmdrTaco for Slashdot Information Minister in '04.