"Ten thousand developers is way more than we ever thought there would be, more than we thought were working in digital media" Sheeran said. The Helix Community was formed when Real rolled out its Helix initiative last July and has now swelled to over 10,000 developers who are able to use the Helix source code for the creation, delivery and playback of digital media. Helix is both a platform and a community dedicated to open, multiformat digital media delivery. Although the public-source license has no royalty for use or distribution, the community source license includes a $500 per server royalty for commercial use. Both licenses are free for research and development purposes, RealNetworks said. The server code is being licensed both as a public-source license and a commercial community source license. It also offers extensible industry-standard application program interfaces, as well as administration, monitoring and authentication capabilities. Helix DNA Server is available for AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. In addition, developers using Helix DNA Server code can create extensions for other media types such as Windows Media and QuickTime, or they can license these extensions from Real or the Helix Community, RealNetworks said. It supports MP3, RealAudio and RealVideo formats, and the company said it intends to add support for MPEG-4 once the licensing terms for the format have been released by the MPEG-4 licensing body. The Helix server code will allow developers to stream digital media and provide live and on-demand broadcasting. In October, Seattle-based RealNetworks released the code to its Helix DNA Client, which enables developers to build playback applications, and in December, it released the code to Helix DNA Producer, allowing developers to encode applications.
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