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Re: RealNetworks Releases Helix Source
« on: October 30, 2002, 09:49:22 AM »
I call it bloatware (35MB DL 25MB installed), after I happended to
installed yesterday. The default behaviour seems to be to do
everything, put a CD in and it wants to copy the tracks to your HD and
then brings up pages trying to sell you similiar sounding records. Its
also has one of those "jelly" like GUI's where every button is a
different shape and works in a different way.

Maybe its me, maybe I'm boring. What would be useful is if Helix
includes Real's codecs.
 

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Re: RealNetworks Releases Helix Source
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2002, 06:06:14 PM »
> What would be useful is if Helix includes Real's codecs.

Well, if it would be possible for us to port helix to Amiga PPC and use the powermac codec binaries, that'd be good enough for me. I'm not sure if that would be possible, perhaps the codecs have something platform-specific in them, who knows? But word has it Frogger can use linux PPC codecs, so that's something to hope for. Lack of source for certain parts probably isn't a huge deal either, as we'd probably have to rewrite CD to HD ripping code anyway as I imagine that would be quite platform specific... Mostly it'd be good to see how the codec API works to access those from Mac land. Or even X86 land for amithlon users.