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Helix Community: Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 for Linux Alpha Available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 20, 2004

“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…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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