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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. So..? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who needs the real Realplayer anyway? I mean, seriously...

  2. Finally ! by bushboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some quality Spyware for Linux !

    Sheesh, it's been a long journey for that little penguin, but lets all say it "Linux has come of age" ! ;)

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  3. Re:wow I'm confused! by betelgeuse-4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps you're meant to add rocks/sucks depending on what period you're talking about: eg.

    Past: IBM SUCKS!!!!
    Present: IBM ROCKS!!!1

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  4. Re:first step? by base_chakra · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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."

    While few would contest that RealNetworks' GPL'd contribution is a boon, it's too bad that their announcement was so self-congratulatory that it tacitly insulted the Linux community, and belittled the work of everyone who has ever positively contributed to it; especially since those collective efforts dwarf RealNetworks' late contribution.

  5. can i have the bonus by trendescape · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want the spyware feature included in all the other realplayer releases. Is this still available? If so, are they open source now!?

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  6. Don't let them fool you.. by Suppafly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Real is still an asshole of a company.

  7. Re:One question: Why? by xmorg · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whats "yuk" about motif?

    Great, so now i gotta sort through my libg32423sdfjewri3jrwejw.so.1.2.3.1 libs just to use realplayer.

    installing and upgrading anything gome or gtk is a pain, and ive done it with rpm, ports, emerge or just plain source code, and something that relies son so many different lib's just to function is yuk, we all like pretty things, but in the end we use programs for what they do not what they look like.

    If you upgrade something suddenly in gtk, all of a suddon over half of your x-apps dont work. and thats "yuk". While Motif and Xt rarely ever upgrade, and apps made with them are less likely to freeze, or require extensive lib searching/installing.