Editing Helix (multimedia project) (section)

==Helix DNA Client==
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Helix DNA Client
| author                 = [[RealNetworks]]
| genre                  = [[Media playback engine]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
}}
Helix DNA Client powers many digital media applications, including [[RealPlayer]] for MS Windows, Mac OS and Linux (since version 10), RealPlayer Mobile, and Helix Player. It is used on [[Nokia]], [[Motorola]], [[Samsung]] and [[Sony Ericsson]] mobile phones. 800 million mobile phones with the Helix client have been shipped since 2004.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://helix-producer.helixcommunity.org/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726144706/https://helix-producer.helixcommunity.org/ | archive-date=2011-07-26 | title=Resources }}</ref> It is also being used in embedded devices like the [[Internet Tablet OS]] from [[Nokia]], which is found on the [[Nokia 770]], [[Nokia N800|N800]] and [[Nokia N810|N810]] Internet Tablets. [[Cingular]] Video is also based on the framework. Other projects that use the Helix framework include RealNetwork's [[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]] online music service, the [[Banshee (music player)|Banshee]] and [[Amarok (audio)|Amarok]] music players, and MediaReady 4000. Helix DNA also manifests itself as the RealPlayer on Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and on Netbooks.

Developers from the [[OSU Open Source Lab|Open Source Lab]] announced in 2007 they would use Helix technologies for content creation applications and collaboration in the [[One Laptop Per Child]] project.<ref>{{Cite news |author= Milko Boic |publisher= RealNetworks |date= May 4, 2007 |url= http://openbossa.indt.org/users/bossa2007/downloads/HelixClient-Atlas.pdf |title= Helix DNA Client |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080916053942/http://openbossa.indt.org/users/bossa2007/downloads/HelixClient-Atlas.pdf |archive-date= September 16, 2008 |access-date= August 1, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Helix_media_activity | title=Helix media activity - OLPC | access-date=2009-08-02 | archive-date=2009-06-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629150735/http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Helix_media_activity | url-status=live }}</ref>

Helix DNA client contains support for the following media formats:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://datatype.helixcommunity.org/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726144631/https://datatype.helixcommunity.org/ | archive-date=2011-07-26 | title=Codecs & Formats }}</ref>
* Audio formats: [[Vorbis]], [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]], [[AACplus|AAC+]], [[.m4a|M4A]], [[MP3]], [[AMR-NB]], [[AMR-WB]], [[RealAudio]], [[Windows Media Audio|WMA]], [[a-law]], [[u-law]] and audio containers [[Audio Interchange File Format|AIFF]], [[WAV]], [[Au file format|AU]]
* Video formats: [[Theora]], [[RealVideo]], [[Windows Media Video|WMV]], [[H.263]], [[H.264]], [[VC-1]], [[H.261]], [[MJPEG]] and container formats RealMedia file format, [[3GP]], 3G2, [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]], [[Advanced Systems Format|ASF]]
* Description formats: [[Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language|SMIL]], [[Session Description Protocol|SDP]]
* Image formats: [[JPEG]], [[Graphics Interchange Format|GIF]], [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]
* Protocols: [[RTSP]], [[Real-time Transport Protocol|RTP]], [[HTTP]], [[Multicast]], [[RDT stream transport|RDT]]