From vikram at helixcommunity.org  Thu May 13 23:14:00 2004
From: vikram at helixcommunity.org (Vikram Dendi)
Date: Thu May 13 23:16:39 2004
Subject: [Player-announce] Helix Player News - May 2004
Message-ID: <40A463A8.3010400@helixcommunity.org>

Hello again!
After a long hiatus in email announcements, I am back with some exciting 
news.

1) RealPlayer 10 for Linux announced.
The RealPlayer 10 for Linux built on top of the Helix Player has been 
announced. While the Helix Player will be a completely open source and 
non proprietary player - RealPlayer adds RealAudio, RealVideo, mp3 and 
other proprietary components. You can find more information about this 
at the following link: 
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/unix/helixrealfaq.html

2) Schedule.
The schedule has been updated with the new Alpha date of May 18. Our 
beta is in June and Gold is in August. The schedule is available here: 
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/schedules/
You will also find an extensive featurelist on that page for the Alpha 
release.

3) Solaris, PowerPC and other platforms
The platforms page has more information about the builds for various 
platforms. https://player.helixcommunity.org/platforms/
While we are on the verge of having relatively stable PPC builds, there 
are some issues with the Solaris player. We would appreciate your help 
in getting these fixed so that we can have an Alpha available on that 
platform as well.

4) Volunteers needed
There have been several requests in our forums for a debian package of 
the player on linux. While this is in plan for the future, it would be 
great if debian experts among you would step up to take on this task. We 
would also like some volunteers to help with our Helix online 
documentation and help system. Anyone who would like to volunteer for 
these tasks or contribute in any other way please feel free to email me.

Please stay tuned for an announcement when the Alpha build is posted 
this monday.  I look forward to your feedback and comments.

best wishes,
V

--
Vikram Dendi
Program Manager and Project Lead
Helix and RealPlayers
https://player.helixcommunity.org

From vikram at helixcommunity.org  Tue May 18 00:42:12 2004
From: vikram at helixcommunity.org (Vikram Dendi)
Date: Tue May 18 00:43:34 2004
Subject: [Player-announce] Helix Player 1.0/RealPlayer10 Alpha release is
	live!
Message-ID: <40A9BE54.4000505@helixcommunity.org>

I just finished uploading the last of the various packages for the Helix 
Player 1.0/RealPlayer 10 Alpha to the player downloads 
 site.

The Helix Player is now 100% open source, and includes support for Ogg 
Vorbis /and/ Ogg Theora, as well as SMIL 2.0 so that you can combine 
Theora videos with JPEG, GIF, or PNG images and RealText.  The 
RealPlayer 10 alpha is a superset of the Helix Player alpha, and adds 
support for RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, and Flash.
See the release notes 
 to 
find out about the rest of the enhancements and give the players a 
whirl. We love your feedback and comments as always, so use any avenue 
you are comfortable with (forums, email, bugzilla)  and let us know what 
you think!

We have tried hard to get all the bad bugs out but remember that it's 
alpha and constantly improving with your feedback and help.
Enjoy the player!

-V

-- 
Vikram Dendi
Program Manager & Project Lead
Helix Player Project
RealPlayer10 for Linux
https://player.helixcommunity.org

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From giles at xiph.org  Tue May 18 10:16:29 2004
From: giles at xiph.org (Ralph Giles)
Date: Tue May 18 12:18:40 2004
Subject: [Player-announce] Helix Player 1.0/RealPlayer10 Alpha release is
	live!
In-Reply-To: <40A9BE54.4000505@helixcommunity.org>
References: <40A9BE54.4000505@helixcommunity.org>
Message-ID: <20040518171629.GA23327@ghostscript.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:42:12AM -0700, Vikram Dendi wrote:

> The Helix Player is now 100% open source, and includes support for Ogg 
> Vorbis /and/ Ogg Theora, as well as SMIL 2.0 so that you can combine 
> Theora videos with JPEG, GIF, or PNG images and RealText.  The 
> RealPlayer 10 alpha is a superset of the Helix Player alpha, and adds 
> support for RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, and Flash.

Wow! What a lovely feature set. :)

Thanks for stoking the fires of the future.

 -r

From jsheedy at mtco.com  Tue May 18 11:43:44 2004
From: jsheedy at mtco.com (Josh Sheedy)
Date: Tue May 18 12:18:40 2004
Subject: [Player-announce] Helix Player 1.0/RealPlayer10 Alpha release
	is	live!
In-Reply-To: <>
References: <>
Message-ID: <200405181843.i4IIhia25616@webmail2.mtco.com>

Hello Vikram,
  The players though  alpha releases seem to work quite well.  I was
wondering if there might be a way to get these players linked off of real's
website?  It would be easier for users not familiar with
www.helixcommunity.org a chance to download these players.

Second question totally off base.  Do you know if there are plans to create
a gui such as this for producer?  Not that the command line is that bad,
just when you are encodeing live streams the visual is nice.

   Thanks,
     Josh Sheedy
On Tue, 18 May 2004 00:42:12 -0700, Vikram Dendi 
wrote :

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> 
> I just finished uploading the last of the various packages for the Helix 
> Player 1.0/RealPlayer 10 Alpha to the player downloads 
>  site.
> 
> The Helix Player is now 100% open source, and includes support for Ogg 
> Vorbis /and/ Ogg Theora, as well as SMIL 2.0 so that you can combine 
> Theora videos with JPEG, GIF, or PNG images and RealText.  The 
> RealPlayer 10 alpha is a superset of the Helix Player alpha, and adds 
> support for RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, and Flash.
> See the release notes 
>  to 
> find out about the rest of the enhancements and give the players a 
> whirl. We love your feedback and comments as always, so use any avenue 
> you are comfortable with (forums, email, bugzilla)  and let us know what 
> you think!
> 
> We have tried hard to get all the bad bugs out but remember that it's 
> alpha and constantly improving with your feedback and help.
> Enjoy the player!
> 
> -V
> 
> -- 
> Vikram Dendi
> Program Manager & Project Lead
> Helix Player Project
> RealPlayer10 for Linux
> https://player.helixcommunity.org
> 
> 
> 