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I'd wager that those of us who give two damns about our privacy would much rather use a cross-platform, free solution such as Helix as opposed to Windows Media Player.įirst off, you're mixing your apples and oranges, comparing servers and clients. I'm not a great fan of either companies buisness practises - but at least in this case Real is doing something that benefits our community - lets support them on this and maybe in a year or two's time they will do more to support open source. Bare that in mind when worrying if the codecs are Open Source or not - they never will be - but kicking Real may just play into MS's hands.
#Helix server medial software
The good thing is if it works and big commercial streamers - for instance the BBC - switch to Helix then it actually will help the adoption of open source formats like Ogg Vorbis because it will so easy to support.Īlternatively if MS wins the server software war 90% of the net will not notice, but the rest of us will lose. I mean to me this looks like a finely balanced mix of commercial sense and Open Source support such that Real can make money.
#Helix server medial install
You'll not get a commercial entity to install your homegrown server software on thier servers, but they may use your plug in if you get enough demand, so the success of Helix will help open source media player developers.ġ) Real can offer an all in one solution and hopefully become the prefered solution to MicrosoftĢ) Real can continue to make money from licenseing codecs, rather than having to charge for the player.ģ) Anyone can write support for thier favourite player/format
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#Helix server medial code
So if you want to write TuxPlayerDeluxe then what you do is look at the Helix code and develop a plug in for your player - now you can get buisness to support you. Real are NOT going to release the codecs open source because that could allow anyone to write server software that works with thier free players and they are rapidly out of buisness - the only other option would be to charge for the players - but people would then use MS players anyway.
#Helix server medial license
They win by market penetration and you still have to license the codecs for thier RealPlayer series so they have a revenue stream. Now what they want is everybody to install Helix as thier streaming server. Even if MS offered binaries for a number of OS's you still don't have as much choice.
#Helix server medial plus
Helix could be compiled for your particular choice of OS - thats a definate plus over the MS offering. This gives Real a commercial adavantage over MS becuase MS software needs to run on MS operating systems - and most big internet stuff is still the domain of various *NIX The attraction for a buisness is they now potentially can install one streaming server and probably one set of master media files - they can stream media to any player on any platform. Real is fighting back by offering an open platform server - in this case anyone who wants to write support for thier player can look at the server code and write a plug in for it. This was Real and Microsoft's approach - but of course Microsoft has a real adavantage because it can put a player on every desktop that it sells - so buisnesses in have to buy Microsoft streaming server software because of consumer demand.īut then people with Mac/*NIX/Set top boxes are cut out of the loop because MS doesn't do players for those platforms, and they won't release the codec details for others to use because then someone could code an alternative streaming server. The money in streaming media is the server end, the clients are generally given away free or at very low cost - you want people to demand that companies install your server product so there is no point stiffing the consumer. Please, be thankful you now have another choice, and if you want a codec, code it yourself. Why do you think a company would be any different?
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I guess because it's from Real, they should be able to give you the whole thing for free, right? Wine changed to GPL because they didn't want companies profitting from their code, and not giving anything back. If this was Jack Mioff releasing this (half-done) on Sourceforge, you would be hearlding this as another step forward for OpenSource. No, it's not 100% free, but if you're looking for 100% free streaming server there are many already out there.
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I suppose you'd rather re-write the whole server, AND the codecs yourself instead of just the codecs. Now you've got the source for a potentially great streaming media server, and you're bitching about not having the codecs? Insightful? I thought the point of OpenSource was sharing. Without free codecs, this is useless anyway so it'll be interesting to see to what extent they've embraced Ogg Vorbis and the other technologies from Xiph.Įrr. Until then, I'm treating this cautiously based on experience with Real. I think the crunch test will come when Debian assesses the Helix server for eligibility.