(PR excerpt) — RealNetworks, Inc. today announced that the third source code component of the Helix platform, the Helix DNA Server, is now available to software developers through the Helix Community. With Helix DNA Server, developers for the first time have source code access to a major end-to-end media delivery platform, consisting of… producer, server, and client components.

Helix DNA Server is the core source code of RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server, the 9th generation, multi-format digital media server that thousands of webcasters already use to deliver content on the Internet.

Helix DNA Server source code will enable developers to build multi-format products for live and on-demand streaming, web collaboration, mobile media delivery, in-home streaming, and many other applications. Helix DNA Server streams MP3, RealAudio(R) and RealVideo(R). RealNetworks intends to add support for MPEG-4 after the MPEG-4 systems license terms have been released by the MPEG-4 licensing body, MPEG LA. Developers can create extensions for other media types such as Windows Media and QuickTime, or they can license these extensions from RealNetworks through the Helix Community. The Helix DNA Server is available for AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems.

Helix DNA Server is the third release of source code into the Helix Community. In October, RealNetworks released the Helix DNA Client source code, which enables developers to build playback applications that support any format. In December, RealNetworks released the Helix DNA Producer, which enabled developers to build encoding applications that support any format. The Helix platform has already received wide industry support from the likes of Cisco, HP, IBM, Network Appliance, nCUBE, Nokia, Oracle, PalmSource, Pinnacle Systems, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Virage, Volera, and many others.

RealNetworks also announced that more than 10,000 software developers have joined the Helix Community since its launch in July, and that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified the public source license used by the Helix Community.

 
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