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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. Move along. by dotwaffle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else get a "Nothing to see here. Move along." notice? That was sooooo weird!

    1. Re:Move along. by cytoman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Me too! I thought I must have clicked some other link by mistake. A gesture and a click corrected it.

      I wonder how many people saw the "Nothing to see here. Move Along" notice...

    2. Re:Move along. by dotwaffle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Did you give it the finger or were you using Opera at the time? ;) I do like Opera, if only it would support some kind of roaming profile system, so I could log in and all my bookmarks etc would be there... hint hint...

    3. Re:Move along. by spacecowboy420 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I get that, and occasionally a "503 service is unavailable". I know they moved servers recently, but this is getting annoying not getting my nerd news fix on demand.

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  2. If slashdot used real format... by students · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    instead of HTML, the pages might load faster. Anything to get it fixed. Previewing this comment took 13 seconds.

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  3. Re:THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!! by screwedcork · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No I've been getting them a lot... it usually works if I refresh a couple times though maybe slashdot has been slashdotted!

  4. Re:THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!! by gowen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey, bad programmers (and anyone who's seen slashcode knows who I'm talking about) can write bad code using any paradigm.

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  5. Re:THERE ARE NO 503 ERRORS!! QUIT SPREADING LIES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it's bandwith I'm sure they could solve it by adopting CSS...

    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot/

    Why AC... cos the last time I logged in it 503'd me!

  6. Package Management or Media File by Jahf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does no one else get routinely tired of .rpm files being seen as "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" when trying to download a new RPM package from a web site?

    I wish that by now there would have been a resolution between the two file types. Other than switching off an RPM distribution :)

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