RealNetworks announced that the Helix Player,
the first commercial grade, open source and multi-format digital media player,
has been awarded top honors by the LinuxWorld Product Excellence
Awards. The Helix Player was recognized for being the 'Best Open Source
Project'.
 "Linux
is increasingly becoming the operating system of choice to drive mobile
handsets, living room devices as well as desktops. The engine inside the
open source Helix Player - the Helix DNA Client - is today powering
digital media playback on those same devices," said Nagesh Pabbisetty,
vice president, Consumer Products and Services, RealNetworks. Inc. "With
the proliferation of media-enabled devices already available, content
developers and broadcasters can now deliver their content directly to
millions of consumers wherever they may be".
 "I'm
happy to see the open source community become aware of the Helix Player
project. The Helix Player is showing promise to be the foremost open
source media player," said Christopher (Monty) Montgomery, Technical
Director, Xiph.org Foundation. "The point of the Helix Community is to
produce and deliver multimedia using a seamless, entirely open source
stream from production tools to server to client. The latest version of
the Helix Player provides first class support of our open source Ogg
codec".
The Xiph.org
Foundation, (www.xiph.org) has worked with
RealNetworks since the launch of the Helix initiative in 2002 and the
formation of Helix Player project in 2003. In addition to supporting
leading industry standard codecs, the open source Helix Player also
supports the leading open source codecs developed by the Xiph.org
Foundation: Ogg Vorbis and Ogg
Theora. |
You can learn more about the Helix Player project
from the Helix Community
site. Open source code is an attractive alternative to manufaturers
that want to customise their products to suit customers
needs.
Source: Music Industry News
