Good afternoon,

I would like to announce that some tools for testing/qa of  
HelixPlayer and RealPlayer have been posted for use by the Helix  
Community. Two of these tools are still in a beta state but they have  
reached a level where we would like to share them. As more tools are  
developed, we will include them as well. Our goal is to provide the  
Helix Community with as many of the internal QA tools we use as is  
possible.

All of these tools may be found here: http://helixqa.helixcommunity.org/

Our current offering includes:
- Community Content Server - Browse, download and stream rights free  
test content. Content includes rm, ra, smil, realtext, realpix, mp3,  
ogg, and 3gp formats. Most formats have multiple encoding types.  
Datatypes may be streamed via http from apache as well as rtsp  
streaming from three versions of the HelixServer.
- Embedded Client JavaScript API - A page that allows interactive  
triggering of all supported Helix Client JavaScript calls for the  
embedded client. The page features an embedded client and triggers  
for testing all known JavaScript calls for the helix client. Text  
areas are provided to display callback messages and feedback from the  
triggered functions.
- Embedded Client Generator - A script that creates embedded test  
clients using specified parameters. Both the 'Mozilla' and 'ActiveX'  
style plugins are supported.
- Helix Community Test System - An online harness for test passes of  
helix clients. The Helix Community Test System is only available to  
partners at this time, how ever we are working on a version that will  
be useable by the entire community.
- Local Content Suite - A subset of the content from the Community  
Content Server is available for download in both zip and tar.gz  
packages. This content is rights free and is provided for testing  
purposes.

Thanks for supporting the Helix Community by breaking our player and  
logging bugs...

Peter Fawcett.
RealPlayer QA : Client Infrastructure and Automation Lead