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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. Re:excellent! by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · Score: 4, Informative

    Xine tends to lose sync when I use it for RA, especially if I am doing something else on the PC at the same time (placing the PC under load). The Real player can handle that.

    The effect is: whatever I am listening to comes out completely garbled. I have to terminate and restart Xine.

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  2. Re:excellent! by groomed · · Score: 5, Informative

    RealPlayer 10 doesn't ask for your email address anymore. I just installed it. It looks decent enough.

    Also support for playing Real media formats in Xine/mplayer still isn't quite as reliable as the real thing. Not to mention the browser plugin support. Finally Xine/mplayer can be a bitch to install.

    I like what Real's doing. RealPlayer 10 is like the RealPlayer 1.0 that never was.

  3. RealPlayer/Helix Relationship by Roguelazer · · Score: 5, Informative
    "The Helix Player is the Helix Community's open source media player for consumers. It is being developed to have a rich and usable graphical interface and support a variety of open media formats like Ogg Vorbis, Theora etc. The RealPlayer for Linux is built on top of the Helix Player for Linux and includes support for several non-open source components including RealAudio/RealVideo, MP3 etc."
    From the helix site itself. :D
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  4. Re:excellent! by andreyw · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA. Helix is non-intrusive, non-commercial, non-irritating, non-email-address-asking.

  5. Re:Getting the plugins to work? by falkryn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I did a ln -s /rp_source_dir/plugins/* /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/plugins

    sort of like a java plugin install. works great for me.

  6. Wrong ... by vlad_petric · · Score: 5, Informative
    xine/mplayer are hardly illegal. They are indeed covered by mpeg4 patents (which only apply if you sell a certain number of units), and furthermore it is illegal (DMCA ...) to distribute them with libdvdread.

    That's all.

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  7. Re:Good news by Kristoffer+Lunden · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, on Windows, there is probably no better player than Media Player Classic, which already can run Real stuff via Real Alternative. Also, mplayer is available for windows, though I've not tried playing Real with it outside Linux.

    As for Real themselves, I kinda like what they are doing now, but old grudges die hard. I am torn between wanting to support people doing the right thing and feeling they haven't been punished nowhere near enough for past things yet.

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