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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: SilvrDrgn on December 05, 2002, 07:12:23 PM

Title: RealNetworks to release more code
Post by: SilvrDrgn on December 05, 2002, 07:12:23 PM
RealNetworks is expected to release more streaming-media source code Monday, in the latest move to fend off Microsoft and the MPEG-4 standard.  Maybe we can make a better player for our favorite computers then!?!?!

For the full story, click HERE (http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976176.html?tag=fd_top).

Title: Re: RealNetworks to release more code
Post by: createcoms on December 05, 2002, 08:24:38 PM
Well I want to port stuff to amiga but its kinda impossible since I dont actually have a working amiga!!!!!


I get no computer, you get no software.

 :madashell:
Title: Re: RealNetworks to release more code
Post by: JurassicCamper on December 06, 2002, 10:58:39 AM
Quote

Well I want to port stuff to amiga but its kinda impossible since I dont actually have a working amiga!!!!!


Buy yourself one here then you can...

http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1 (http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1)
Title: Re: RealNetworks to release more code
Post by: theTAO on December 07, 2002, 06:45:36 AM
I followed Real's Helix project with interest when it was first announced, but then forgot about it for a while as I can't seem to read tech news on a regular basis.  I just visited the Helix web site to answer the question, "Are there any PowerPC binaries?".  After SSL connections, a slightly convoluted registration process, agreeing to two license agreements, and wading-through a dozen or more pages, I found that the answer is "no".

As a matter of fact, the only binaries currently available are for Win32 and Linux (X86 Linux, I'd assume), which seems to indicate that Real is making Helix available as *OS* libraries, meaning that we'll still likely end-up unsupported!  I thought the point of Helix was to support platforms that aren't already covered, through binaries coded into some generic assembly format for each processor...  What a total waste!  RealPlayer support currently looks a long way off again. :-(

(If anyone reading this is a Helix developer and can correct me on any of the above, please do so.)

Todd