OT: Launch.com music videos under Mozilla and Linux

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:34 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> There are several mac users, and several linux users, who do not want  
> Real on their machines. Myself included. I don't even have it on my  
> Windows machine, where it arguably is a good player.
> 
> Don't dismiss open source as possibly providing a viable option.
> 
> If you look at gstreamer.freedesktop.org - there's some pretty exciting  
> stuff going on right now with respect to open source media technology.
> 
> Not just players, but streaming server technology.

...Last time I checked, RealPlayer is actually a commercially branded
version of the OpenSource HelixPlayer from http://www.helixcommunity.org
(with a couple of extra codecs). HelixPlayer is installed by default in
FC3.

Seems to me there is a viable option for RealPlayer available directly
from Real themselves.

Cheers,

Chris


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