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About Helix Community

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The Helix Community is an open collaborative effort among multimedia enthusiasts to develop and extend the Helix DNA™ platform.   The community offers a collaborative, consensus based development process, with an extensive and diverse ecosystem of developers all involved in creating world class multimedia enabled applications.  The Helix Community was created in July of 2002 by Real to help the industry standardize on an open digital media platform.

Helix DNA™ is the leading open multi-format digital media platform, created to accelerate the development and deployment of digital media applications of any media, on any device, over any network, on any operating system and created in any development environment.   It not only consists of source code for the playback of digital media but also for the creation and delivery of it.  The Helix DNA™ code is available in binary and source code form and is licensable under various open-source and commercial-source licenses.

About RealNetworks

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RealNetworks LLC is the leading creator of streaming media services and software.  Educational, government and corporate organizations along with broadcasters, network operators and medias companies use RealNetworks products and services to create and deliver streaming media to PCs, mobile phones, and consumer electronics devices.  RealNetworks business systems and corporate information is located at www.realnetworks.com