Helix Player 1.0 Milestone 1 release

Posted Oct 25, 2003 2:25 UTC (Sat) by vikman (guest, #16254)
In reply to: Helix Player 1.0 Milestone 1 release by jonabbey
Parent article: Helix Player 1.0 Milestone 1 release

Thank you for the compliments. Me and my team are working very hard to make sure we can get to a point where there won't be any doubt that we intend to create an open and free multimedia player for Linux (not to mention legal).

I echo RobLa in that, the success of this project will make it a bellweather for the opensource wave at Real.

I have updated the schedule to be more detailed. That should give you a clearer idea of what the initial versions of the player might look like. As you will see, there is tentative Theora support filled in (tentative because it depends on how much community participation I can count on - can't do everything in version 1 with just the core HelixPlayer team). I hope, if nothing else, that you would give us a try from time to time. Maybe we (not just me and folks from Real that are working on this - but the many others who are coming and helping the project) can change your mind about our commitment to the opensource software community.

Aside from the amusing flamewars that went up above, I would really like to thank the many folks who quietly came by, downloaded, ran (and crashed) the player and plug-in and have been actively giving me feedback. Thanks to you guys, we have found and fixed a bunch of bugs. There are also a few of you who have come and lent a hand in patching some of the bugs and cheers to those!

We expect to post refresh builds (with bugfixes) and then nightlies soon. So hold out for an announcement on our homepage and mailing lists.

Thanks all!
V
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Vikram Dendi
Program Manager for Helix Player
THE mediaplayer for Linux/Unix/Solaris