RealNetworks has released the source code to Helix Producer, its encoding tool. Note that although Helix Producer has been open-sourced, it is not free, and some of the most critical pieces of the RealSystem platform (such as codecs) have not been open-sourced.

Because RealNetworks had abandoned all platforms except Windows with their most recent Helix Producer […]

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Movielink has announced that it will use both RealSystem and Windows Media for it’s upcoming video-on-demand services.

“We wanted as low a hurdle as possible for consumers to be able to get movies through the most widely distributed players, Microsoft and RealNetworks, and the most secure digital rights management technologies,” Ramos said.

Note that they’re not supporting […]