Last night, RealNetworks announced to Helix Community members that its Helix DNA Client source code is available to registered users.

The jury is still out on whether RealNetworks’ open source are going to make a difference. The Helix mailing lists have been dead quiet, suggesting massive disinterest. The RealNetworks licenses don’t help — for example, anyone […]

Today, Macromedia demonstrated Flash Player on one of the new Sony Cliés at DevCon 2002. According to the presenter, “Flash Player is built into the device”. This is very significant news for digital media content developers since it suggests that Flash will be the de-facto standard for rich-media on PDAs, and for Palm since Flash […]

Microsoft’s very-proprietary Windows Media Audio format has been reverse engineered as part of the FFmpeg project. Codecs from the FFmpeg project are licensed under the LGPL and are used by several other projects.

Now, the only hitch to building Windows Media Audio-compatible players is Microsoft ASF-related patent, which I personally believe is invalid based on prior […]