Re: [tlug] playing real video with an open source player

[ben konrath <ben@example.com>]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:52:17PM +0200, Martin B?hr wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:12:52AM -0400, ben konrath wrote:
> > I asked them why they weren't using any open source
> > codecs and they told me that real video was open source.
> 
> they may be refering to helix ( https://helixcommunity.org/ )
> which is indeed free software
> 
> however the realaudio and realvideo codecs are not.

Ok, I think that this is the source of my confusion. What exactly is
helix? Does helix have the same relationship to realmedia that mozilla
has to netscape?

Cheers, Ben