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sillKotscha

7th August 2003, 17:41

as you can read here (only found this article in german)...

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/33044/

well, ZP and MPC suits me best ...and of course TCMP as a complete rockin' media center... but I think Sirber will be quite happy ;)

cheers Sill

RadicalEd

7th August 2003, 17:53

I'm trying to find what that article was referencing..
is this it perhaps?
https://player.helixcommunity.org/

That's not realone going open source though, it's just a ground up player project, right?
:/
I dunno

sillKotscha

7th August 2003, 18:09

at least RealPlayer9 is available for Linux ...

- http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2001100200420NWDTSW

and maybe yes, the sourcecode of RealPlayer might be used (is used) by the Helix Player Project... you're propably right...

Sill