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List:       helix-open-discuss
Subject:    Re: [feedback] Client status.
From:       Mark Murphy <mlmurphy () real ! com>
Date:       2002-09-30 16:15:15
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.2.20020930090637.00bc56e8 () mail ! real ! com
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At 02:33 AM 9/29/2002, Simon Robins wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am interested in learning what I can do with the Helix code that will be 
>made available for the development of customised players. From what I can 
>see from the "Technical Info" currently on the Helix site, any player SDK 
>is likely to offer support of only Real formats and mp3/AMR. What about 
>other formats that RealOne supports - notably mpeg-4? Is there no hope of 
>using Helix to create a custom player that offers the range of supported 
>formats that the RealOne player does?
>
>Regards, Simon Robins.
>--
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>Simon Robins                         mailto:simon.robins@genista.com
>www.genista.com                      www.streamingmedianews.info
>                                      www.simonrobins.com 
>

What you see on that list is a tentative roster. We are interested in 
making as many codecs and formats available as open source as possible, and 
provide binary plug-ins for others. We are wading through many distribution 
agreements to see what we can and cannot do, so stay tuned! There may also 
be some codecs or formats that we can provide eventually but will not have 
time to do for the initial code release.

Furthermore, even if there is some format that RealNetworks does not 
include with Helix, a complete set of APIs are available to plug in 
whatever you wish (e.g., Ogg Vorbis). We may elect to seed a few projects 
for codecs and formats we would like the community to have that we're 
unable to provide code for directly, and the community is welcome to 
sponsor additional projects in this area.

If you have additional questions along this line, feel free to post them to 
discuss@open.helixcommunity.org.

Thanks for your interest in Helix!


Mark Murphy, Helix Community Manager
CollabNet, Inc.
mlmurphy@real.com / mmurphy@collab.net


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