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Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Real Helix Player -- 4:29 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

RealNetworks made an announcement at LinuxWorld about plans for their Helix Player, an open-source media player that will support SMIL 2.0, RealAudio (G2 and RA8), RealVideo (G2-RV9), MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and MPEG4. News.com.com.org.net.info.edu has more details. It's not clear if they are actually opening the source to RV9 or RA8 or not, although I doubt they will. If it means getting a media player that is better than the lame RealOne for Linux and the annoying RealOne for Windows, then I'm all for it. The first milestone is supposed to be released in the fourth quarter of this year. Thanks Linux Today.

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