A community of developers & companies innovating with & on Helix DNA, an open, comprehensive platform for digital media creation delivery and playback
https://helixcommunity.org

Hybrid of legitimate commercial licensing and F/OSS licensing, all in single community of developers

Rob Lanphier
Development Support Manager
RealNetworks

Multimedia Client Techology

100% multi-licensed (open source and commercial community) media engine

“Helix DNA Client”

100% multi-licensed (open source and commercial community) media player (i.e. Ogg Vorbis and Theora codecs only)

“ Helix Player v1.0”

Linux media player that includes non-open source components like RA10/RV10, MP3, and Flash.

“RealPlayer 10”

Helix Player with GPL! (coming soon)

Three licensing options

RCSL – Commercial licensing terms - $0.10/unit for media engine

RPSL – OSI Certified license, compatible with MPL, QPL, and many other OSI licenses that GPL isn't.

GPL v2 (within 30 days) – Free as in speech, beer, and Willy.

RealAudio and RealVideo Licensing

R&D options

No-cost research and personal use license of pre-compiled binaries with Helix DNA Client

RCSL Attachment G: No-cost porting and optimization source code agreement

Distribution options

RealPlayer 10 - Contribution and distribution agreement (coming soon)

RCSL Attachment F - $0.25/unit

What’s is the Helix DNA Client?

Cross-platform media engine for Linux, Solaris, Windows (XP and CE), Mac, Symbian with ports underway for iTRON, pSOS, HP-UX, PalmOS and many others I'm forgetting

Rich XPCOM-like plugin interfaces for filesystems, file formats, renderers and codecs

File format and rendering plugins

RPSL/RCSL/GPL: Ogg Vorbis & Theora, SMIL, GIF, JPEG, PNG, H.261, H.263, basic AVI

Plugin-ready for many pre-built, non-open source plugins: RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, MPEG-4, 3GPP, AMR, Macromedia Flash

Filesystem plugins:

Local, HTTP

Protocol support in the core: RTSP, RTP

RDT available in RealPlayer

What’s does Helix Player add to Helix DNA Client?

Features:

GTK-2.x based user interface

GTK widget for media playback built on HxClientKit

HxClientKit – cross platform, simple C API for accessing Helix DNA Client functionality

Community-accessible gettext internationalization

Compliance freedesktop.org/Gnome HIG

RPM, tarball & stand-alone installers/browser configuration

Mozilla plugin with full JavaScript scriptability, including callbacks

Simple Helix Auto-update System

100% open source (and soon GPL)

Target Platform: GTK 2.2, 2.4.x kernel, mozilla 1.6+, libc-2.3.2, gnome 2.4

What does RealPlayer 10 add to the Helix Player

No cost, non-open source datatype plugins RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, MPEG-4, 3GPP, AMR, Macromedia Flash

Client core additions to add RDT support

Statically linked into the core

Future roadmap: abstract out protocol plugins for dynamic linking

RealPlayer branding

Helix DNA Client

Big Picture

Helix Player

Client Core

Multicast

RDT

Browser embedded

player

RealPlayer

HxClientKit

Gtk Widget

RTP

RTSP

Non-F/OSS

Helix Player

Filesystem, File Format, Rendering, and Codec Plugins

GPL/RPSL/RCSL

More info

http://helixcommunity.org

What is Helix? Helix 3 simple things:

1) The First Open, Comprehensive Platform for Digital Media Creation, Delivery and playback - Helix DNA

2) An Organization of Developers & Companies Innovating With and On Helix DNA – Helix Community

3) Products & Applications Built by Community Members on the Helix DNA platform, including, but not limited to, our newly released Helix Universal Server and the industry leading RealOne Player

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